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The Poets' Wives (Paperback)
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The Poets' Wives (Paperback)
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From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the
lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake,
Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet 'An
outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly
enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts'
Irish Times 'The Poets' Wives is a marvellous triptych: lyrical,
respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical' Sunday Times
__________________ Three women, each destined to play the role of a
poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake - a poet,
painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society
that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of
Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under
Stalin's terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish
poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her
husband's death as she seeks to fulfil his final wish. Set across
continents and centuries, and in very different circumstances,
these three women confront the contradictions between art and life,
contemplate their emotional and physical sacrifices for another's
creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only
the flesh, but ultimately poetry itself. They find themselves
custodians of their husbands' work, work that has been woven with
love's intimacies and which has shaped their own lives in the most
unexpected of ways. Deeply insightful and beautifully wrought, The
Poets' Wives is David Park at his best - a novelist whose work has
the power to bring the hidden from the shadows, into a delicate and
shimmering light.
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Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2015 |
Authors: |
David Park
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4088-4636-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4088-4636-5 |
Barcode: |
9781408846360 |
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