Sunderland (Paperback)

"Think [Nabokov's] Pale Fire, perhaps, or [Byatt's] Possession, but in a contemporary Afropolitan context." Jenefer Shute, author of Life-size, sex crimes and user ID. Unhappily married Cape Town academic Art Berger is offered what appears to be a professional lifeline: to reconstitute the final papers of the great South African writer Charles de Villiers into book-form. He is uncomfortable about the role of ghost-writer, but the project becomes literary detective-work he cannot give up. Introduce De Villiers' beautiful daughter Taryn, and Art is ensnared. Sunderland alternates between sections, mostly in journal form, chronicling Art's struggle to make sense of De Villiers' fragmented and disordered text, and sections - scenes, notes, outlines - from that very work (also entitled 'Sunderland'). A novel of (literary) ideas as much as of character, this fascinating collaboration by two of South Africa's finest wranglers of words still comes to a literal crescendo; a finely tuned masterpiece to read in one sitting.

General

Imprint:	Jacana Media
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	May 2014
Authors:	Ken Barris • Michael Cope
Dimensions:	235 x 153 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	199
ISBN-13:	978-1-4314-1079-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4314-1079-9
Barcode:	9781431410798

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