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Berry, John

 
9781403334329: Once through the Wall
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ISBN 10: 1403334323 ISBN 13: 9781403334329
Editorial: AuthorHouse, 2002

Sinopsis

Damon Guster, a middle-aged English poet and textbook publisher, unreflectingly takes on the identity, though not the name, of his boyhood friend and teacher, Tristan Wrye.The story begins when Guster reads an item in the Times informing him that the poet Wrye, long thought dead, is now dying in a London hospital. He goes home and while brooding over Wrye he has an hallucinatory experience. An angel with a flaming pen appears, enters him and compels him to write. From this enforced collaboration comes an elegy commemorating the death of Tristan Wrye. Guster knows it is by far his best poem and will seal his reputation as the great poet of his day. There is a complication. Instead of dying, Wrye is gradually recovering. In fact he has been re-discovered as an important literary figure. Guster encourages Wrye, despite his ill health, to accept an invitation by a dubious American agency to do a tour of readings in America. He secretly follows, half hoping that Wrye will not survive the tour, half wanting to protect him. A series of misadventures now occur culminating in the death of Guster. It remains for Wrye to explain the secret that bound him and Guster together.

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Reseña del editor

Damon Guster, a middle-aged English poet and textbook publisher, unreflectingly takes on the identity, though not the name, of his boyhood friend and teacher, Tristan Wrye.The story begins when Guster reads an item in the Times informing him that the poet Wrye, long thought dead, is now dying in a London hospital. He goes home and while brooding over Wrye he has an hallucinatory experience. An angel with a flaming pen appears, enters him and compels him to write. From this enforced collaboration comes an elegy commemorating the death of Tristan Wrye. Guster knows it is by far his best poem and will seal his reputation as the great poet of his day. There is a complication. Instead of dying, Wrye is gradually recovering. In fact he has been re-discovered as an important literary figure. Guster encourages Wrye, despite his ill health, to accept an invitation by a dubious American agency to do a tour of readings in America. He secretly follows, half hoping that Wrye will not survive the tour, half wanting to protect him. A series of misadventures now occur culminating in the death of Guster. It remains for Wrye to explain the secret that bound him and Guster together.

Biografía del autor

For forty years John Berry and his wife, Ynez, lived on a small mountain in East Los Angeles. He sometimes wrote about this area, but most of his novels and stories have a locale elsewhere: in India, where he lived for five years, in imaginary countries, in England where he stayed for sometime in a village by the North Sea. Here he began the present novel, completing it when he returned to California. Later, he wrote a short story version that was first published in Prairie Schooner in 1976. In a series of observations called The Ocean Of Maya he writes, 'Every experience is great and mysterious. May we respect it as if it were a god walking among us in the guise of a casual stranger.'

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Editorial
AuthorHouse
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1403334323
ISBN 13 
9781403334329
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
380
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