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The Apothecary (Paperback) Loot Price: R202
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The Apothecary (Paperback): Lisa Robertson

The Apothecary (Paperback)

Lisa Robertson

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I want an ingenious fibre to be treated as funny tragedy expressing a classic argument against materialism which runs like this: which changes of costume are bound to be dangerous? The Apothecary is an extinct fern called a sentence unfurling in the mists. It is also Lisa Robertson's first book. Originally published in a small edition by Tsunami Editions in Vancouver in 1991, it quietly disappeared until it was re-released in 2001 on a need-to-know-basis. BookThug is now pleased to make this text available in a more permanent and pleasing edition. The Apothecary stems from the author's desire to remake the sentence � to let it be capacious, preposterous, convivial, and hang it from a pronoun worn like a phantom limb. Robertson wants that ghostly pronoun to reinvent itself afresh in each sentence. Looking towards the eighteenth century, sometimes through a lens occasionally borrowed from contemporary sources, the text of The Apothecary is precise, intoxicating materia medica dispensed by one of Canada's most important contemporary posts at the beginning of her career with the use of florid instruments.

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Imprint: Book Thug
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: March 2007
First published: February 2006
Authors: Lisa Robertson
Dimensions: 203 x 140 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 978-1-897388-01-3
Categories: Books
LSN: 1-897388-01-2
Barcode: 9781897388013

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