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Owen Sheers - Gospel of Us, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Gospel of Us

Av Owen Sheers

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Beskrivning
In The Gospel of Us, Owen Sheers reimagines his National Theatre of Wales dramatisation of the three-day Passion, set in the streets and clubs of Port Talbot. Sheers' novel tells of a town in thrall to the sinister corporation ICU – until the day when a stranger appears in the dunes, singing songs to the sea. This is just the start of three days of unearthly events in Port Talbot: events that see the Teacher soothe a suicide bomber, and the dead rise in an underpass. "Owen is one of the finest writers at work today. He always finds the sublime in the everyday and the miracle in the mundane." – Michael Sheen"Sheers writes with dazzle and poetic economy." – The Times"One of the outstanding theatrical events not only of this year, but of the decade." – The Observer on The Passion of Port TalbotOwen Sheers is the author of the novel Resistance (2008), shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best Book Award and now a film starring Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough (2011). His other books include two Seren poetry collections, The Blue Book (2000) and Skirrid Hill (2006); a Zimbabwean travel narrative and 2005 Welsh Book of the Year, The Dust Diaries (2005); and White Ravens, his entry in Seren's New Stories from the Mabinogion series of short novels (2010).
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-03-28
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 225 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 200
  • Förlag: Poetry Wales Press
  • ISBN: 9781854116222
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Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. Twice-winner of Wales Book of the Year, his other awards include the St David Award for Culture, the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award and, for ‘Skirrid Hill’, the Somerset Maugham Award. The author of two novels, ‘Resistance’ and ‘I Saw A Man’, his work for TV and theatre includes the BAFTA-nominated film-poem ‘The Green Hollow’, the verse drama ‘Pink Mist’ and for National Theatre Wales, ‘The Passion’ and ‘Mametz’. A former NYPL Cullman Fellow, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University.

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For his previous novella 'White Ravens' "a gripping contemporary story - brilliantly absorbs the magical elements of the original" The Guardian "Sheers makes his 20th-century setting sing but holds on to the otherworldliness of his source material - A spellbinding fable about male self-destructiveness and the effects of war on those who return home." The Financial Times "a gripping tale of the unexpected that fuses Welsh myth and modern macabre into a superb, bewitching whole" The Sunday Times "Via the sheep-farming landscapes of today's Wales and the Blitz-hit London of the 1940s, his novella dwells on "the cyclical nature of atrocity" in swift prose that slips between its periods and levels with gravity and grace." The Independent

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