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Télécharger le livre :  Swimming In The Flood
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Swimming In The Flood


John Burnside


A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting young poets in Britain. Dealing with issues of childhood, betrayal and domestic and sexual violence, SWIMMING IN THE FLOOD is Burnside's darkest and most powerful collection yet.

Parution : 2011-11-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Living Nowhere
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Living Nowhere


John Burnside


Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces - in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis Cameron, from Scotland, and his friend Jan Ruckert, the son of Latvian refugees....

Parution : 2011-02-15
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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8,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Devil's Footprints
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The Devil's Footprints


John Burnside


Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town. Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life, but...

Parution : 2011-01-18
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dumb House
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The Dumb House


John Burnside


As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language.As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur...

Parution : 2010-12-15
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hunt in the Forest
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The Hunt in the Forest


John Burnside


Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, John Burnside's new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the darkness, where we may just as easily lose ourselves as find what we are...

Parution : 2010-12-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Gift Songs
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Gift Songs


John Burnside


To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own', Shaker artists expressed an aesthetic that had much in common with the old Japanese notion, attributed...

Parution : 2010-12-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Waking Up in Toytown
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Waking Up in Toytown


John Burnside


In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. But the suburbs are not quite as normal as he had imagined and, as he relapses into chaos,...

Parution : 2010-11-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Asylum Dance
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The Asylum Dance


John Burnside


Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own: a domestic world threaded...

Parution : 2010-11-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Glister
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Glister


John Burnside


The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence the...

Parution : 2010-08-31
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  A Lie About My Father
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A Lie About My Father


John Burnside


A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine.A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his...

Parution : 2010-08-31
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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