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Dear boy
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- Book Synopsis
- Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ingénue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell stories recognisable and refracted, carried along by the undercurrent on which the collection ebbs and rides: the anguish and energy brought about by a long-distance love affair, which propels and terrorises and ultimately unites the work. Dear Boy is an irresistible and enlivening collection by a new poet of startling and various gifts.
- About The Author
- Emily Berry is the author of three books of poems published by Faber & Faber: Dear Boy (2013), Stranger, Baby (2017) and Unexhausted Time (2022). She has been the recipient of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Hawthornden Prize and the Poetry Book Society Choice. A selection of her work appears in Penguin Modern Classics 1: If I'm Scared We Can't Win. She is editor-in-chief of the bedtime stories app Sleep Worlds.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571284054
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (07 March 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 57
- Weight
- 85 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 131 x 8 mm
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