- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Picador (7 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 033048544X
- ISBN-13: 978-0330485449
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,148,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Here's a new trip for BritLit - the novel as verse... Classic yet hip, stylised yet inventive, Maxwell's opus must be destined for cult status.
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One of the most technically gifted and stylish of the younger English poets
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CHRISTMAS EVE, 1984. Edmund Lea has ridden a Ghost Train for fourteen years and believes he is in Hell. Read the first page
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CHRISTMAS EVE, 1984. Edmund Lea has ridden a Ghost Train for fourteen years and believes he is in Hell. Read the first page
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One of those books that you know you're going to read again - and one of those books that induces a wry chuckle as you appreciate how good it is. How can anything be this good, and written in this day and age by an ordinary bloke??
It stays with you, with both humour and a very rich melancholy. So difficult to say why it was so good - its understated, no great "hooks" or anything, that narrative demands - and yet you can't put it down, are sorry it ends and wonder if you can leave it alone long enough to recreate the astonishment on a second reading. Nice, haunting rhythms and rhymes, but not to any dogmatic extent - poetry doesn't need to rhyme after all, but this largely does, or at least, chimes rather than rhymes.
It stays with you, with both humour and a very rich melancholy. So difficult to say why it was so good - its understated, no great "hooks" or anything, that narrative demands - and yet you can't put it down, are sorry it ends and wonder if you can leave it alone long enough to recreate the astonishment on a second reading. Nice, haunting rhythms and rhymes, but not to any dogmatic extent - poetry doesn't need to rhyme after all, but this largely does, or at least, chimes rather than rhymes.
Sorry - I'm being vague, and probably unhelpful! But its a life-changer, for me. It sent me flying to Amazon for all other Glyn Maxwell books too.
Wonderful, and will be with me for ever.
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