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Butterfly on the Wind
Adam Pottle; Illustrated by Ziyue Chen
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R495
R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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This is a crackling, searing satire that ridicules both political
correctness and the restrictive world of academia. But Adam Pottles
first novel is also a poignant and difficult glance into the world
of a man battling a rare and debilitating disease. A wheelchair
user living voluntarily in a care home, Dexter Ripley lashes out at
all those around himhis behaviour so outrageous yet insightful that
Ripley is curiously both repelling and fascinating. With a
boisterous, propulsive voice, Dexter Ripley shares his insights on
life as a care home resident, his relationships with his sister and
her son, his career as a professor, and, despite his bitter nature,
his goal of creating a philosophy based on positivity and
imagination. Through the voice of this embittered man, Pottle
creates a treatise that views disability as a philosophical
position rather than a physical or mental condition.
In Voice , Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has
played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a
unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both
ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world of
muted sound, and how his deafness has influenced virtually
everything about his writing, from his use of language to character
and plot choices. Salty, bold, and relentlessly honest, Voice makes
us think about writing in entirely new ways and expands our
understanding of deafness and the gifts that it can offer.
"Pottle's book is an important contribution to the growing roster
of writing supplied by deaf academics, artists, writers, actors and
theatre directors and professionals. I felt a 'coming home'
experience in reading this book. As a deaf writer, I
enthusiastically say 'yes' to his linkages between deafness and
writing." -Joanne Weber, author of The Deaf House
In this jarring collection, Adam Pottle cracks open the world of
disability, illuminating it with an idiom that is both unsettling
and exhilarating. His subjects are gritty and multifarious: amputee
sex swingers; drug-related shootings; and, institutionalized
adolescents coerced into sterilization. Difficult as their
circumstances may seem, Pottle's denizens learn to navigate the
world with creative resolve, even defiance, searching for an
identity that includes their disabilities rather than spites them.
His poems scrape our nerves; they test and undermine poetic forms,
and challenging our own sensibilities in the process.
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