The Red-Funnelled Boat
β Scribed by Armstrong, Peter
- Book ID
- 108874328
- Publisher
- Picador
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 91 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781447218241
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Overview: The Red-Funnelled Boat charts a course through richly varied territory, from theological obsession to the paranoid fantasies of the armchair footballer, the vernacular hell of mental illness and the authorβs lyrical yearning for the elsewheres of the Hebrides and the cinematic Midwest. These precisely imagined, disturbing and fascinating poems establish Armstrong as a powerfully assured new voice, and a phrase-maker of startling originality.
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