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Hopdance (Paperback)
Stewart Parker; Edited by Marilynn Richtarik; Foreword by Lynn E. Parker
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R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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In a great Irish tradition of autobiographical fiction that
includes James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark, Parker’s poignant novel
depicts events surrounding the amputation of his left leg as a
nineteen-year-old university student. Masterful vignettes present
the callow protagonist’s life before, during and after this
ordeal. Belfast, drear locus of rain and despond, contributes to
the heaviness at the novel’s heart, as its characters strive to
rise above the pervasive melancholy of the city and find some human
happiness that they can share. Tosh, Parker’s alter-ego, is
drifting through life before his cancer diagnosis, plagued by the
twin ‘cankers’ of a puzzling pain in the leg and a crippling
loneliness. The amputation forces him into a more authentic
relationship with life, which ‘Starts with the wound. Ends with
the kiss. For the lucky ones.’ This remarkable, posthumously
edited work, largely written in the early 1970s, prefigures the
skills Parker would demonstrate in his plays: plainspoken and
stoical in tone, the emotion seeps through a membrane of numb
reserve. The writing is impressionistically vivid, the descriptions
of pain and discomfort wholly authoritative. Hopdance is a
beautiful, sincere, personal testament by a true artist, a wondrous
‘lost treasure’ of literature now presented to its reading
public.
A study of the allegation of anti-Semitism against Marxism and the
Soviet Union until the death of Stalin.
Revised and updated edition for 2011. This book examines the
reality of the social and political situation in Belarus. Belarus
is placed within its correct historical context and the myth of
'Europe's last dictatorship' is exposed.
The history of diving helmet designs from around the world. The
diving helmet is an iconic piece of history. Years after it has
been retired by modern navies and professional divers it retains
its place on qualification badges and dive club logos. The early
years of diving produced some amazing and some bizarre ideas and
this book tracks their development and the reasoning behind them.
The different approaches taken by the designers and their relative
merits and successes are covered, taking away some of the mystery
from these copper, brass and bronze legacies of a bygone age. With
over 60 photos and illustrations the author also examines the
various dangers of diving including the obligatory giant squid, as
well as chronicling homemade diving equipment and his own 'deep sea
diving' adventure. With a foreword by Tony Groom, author of Diver
and In2Deep.
"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and
elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre"
(Observer) This volume includes three of Stewart Parker's most
striking plays - Northern Star: 'Only an Irishman could have
written something like this: a freewheeling, lunatic sense of
invention is harnessed to a cultivated, literary imagination and
stoked up by moral outrage. It is a captivating play' (Sunday
Times); Heavenly Bodies: 'The colourful, rather Balzacian story of
Boucicault ...An undoubted talent for pungent dialogue' (The
Times); Pentecost: 'One of the most stimulating, most satisfying,
most touching, most illuminating in years of Irish theatre. A total
theatrical experience' (Irish Times)
This lavishly illustrated work by two renowned scholars narrates
the history of the spread of Islam all over the world, from its
birth in Arabia in the seventh century to the present day. Islam
remains an active and stillspreading phenomenon whose influence in
different parts of the world is profound, and, to many non-Muslims,
mysterious and little understood. With its 180 maps, 200
illustrations and carefully prepared text, the book brings clarity
and under-standing to a religious and cultural force of great
contemporary significance.
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