The Music In The Ice. On Writers, Writing & Other Things
Stephen Watson
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: South Africa
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Description: 381 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers Description: "In this collection of essays, Stephen Watson turns to the writers who have endured for him; to the places that have formed him; and always to the nature of writing and literature itself."--Back cover.Leonard Cohen & longing -- Poetry & absence: one writers account -- Late Milosz -- The clarities of Hemingway -- The Madonna of Parnassus -- Work & love: the letters of T.S. Eliot -- Dante, Eliot & other things -- The heart of Albert Camus -- On Guy Butler -- The meaning of an island -- The rhetoric of violence in South African poetry -- Four South African epitaphs -- Bitter pastoral: a talk about the Cedarberg -- Voting with my feet -- Buiten Street -- Afterword to a city -- Hannah Hunter Watson -- One foot-note.
ISBN: 9780143026907
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