A Length of Road: Finding Myself in the Footsteps of John Clare: A John Murray Original - Tapa blanda

Hamberger, Robert

 
9781473697935: A Length of Road: Finding Myself in the Footsteps of John Clare: A John Murray Original
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ISBN 10: 147369793X ISBN 13: 9781473697935
Editorial: JM Originals, 2021

Sinopsis

In 1841 the 'peasant poet' John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare was attempting to return to his idealized first love, Mary, unaware that she had died three years earlier.

In 1995, with his life in crisis and his own mental health fragile, Robert decides to retrace Clare's route along the Great North Road over a punishing four-day walk. As he walks he reflects on the changing landscape and on the evolving shape of his own family, on fatherhood and masculinity, and on the meaning of home.

Part memoir, part travel-writing, part literary criticism, A Length of Road is a deeply profound and poetic exploration of class, gender, grief and sexuality through the author's own experiences and through the autobiographical writing of poet John Clare.

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Acerca del autor

Robert Hamberger is a published poet of six pamphlets and three collections, who works have been broadcast on Radio 4 and published in the Observer, New Statesman, The Spectator, Poetry Review and Gay Times. This is his first non-fiction book.

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Editorial
JM Originals
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
147369793X
ISBN 13 
9781473697935
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK
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