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Faber & Faber
Dear Boy (Faber Poetry)
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9780571284054
ISBN13:
9780571284054
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Dear Boy (Faber Poetry)
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Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ing?nue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell stories recognisable and refracted, carried along by the undercurrent on which the collection ebbs and rides: the anguish and energy brought about by a long-distance love affair, which propels and terrorises and ultimately unites the work. Dear Boy is an irresistible and enlivening collection by a new poet of startling and various gifts.
| Author: Emily Berry |
| Publisher: Faber & Faber |
| Publication Date: Jun 12, 2018 |
| Number of Pages: 64 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 0571284051 |
| ISBN-13: 9780571284054 |
