Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief -- a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the 'insomniac' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls -- his
Evolutionists Wing It With a New Fossil Bird
β Scribed by BARINAGA, M.
- Book ID
- 121151471
- Publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Volume
- 255
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
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