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Brazilian Tequila
A Journey into the Interior
E-bok, 2018
65 kr
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Experienced author and journalist Augustus Young used his travel diaries to produce a semi-fictional story about the people and culture of Brazil in Brazilian Tequila . Gus, a middle-aged Irishman, finds that his life in London has gone cold. An epidemiologist without an epidemic, a poet who cannot …
Diversifications
Mayakovsky, Brecht and Me
Häftad, 2009
197 kr
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Diversifications includes a long poem by the author, 'The Long Habit of Living', together with his loose reworking of Mayakovsky's classic long poem 'Cloud in Pants', and some loose translations of Brecht, plus a number of poems "in the manner of Brecht". Each of the book's three sections offer the …
Making of an Alter Ego
Reading between the lines of how the pure poet presented himself in life
Häftad, 2026
251 kr
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In 'The Making of an Alter Ego', Augustus Young shines new light on Rilke’s famously perplexing autofiction, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigg', chronicling his own attempts to uncover the story within the story. 'The Notebooks. . .' has puzzled readers ever since it was penned a century ago. …
Credit
A COMEDY OF EMPEIRIA IN THREE ACTS
Häftad, 2018
139 kr
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The Credit is an opera without music. The first Act recites the story of Hugh, a successful product of Jesuit education, who returns to school as a celebrity on prize-giving day. The occasion is clouded, if not spoiled, by the uninvited presence of a certain Doc McGuiness, a dodgy business …
Storytime
Häftad, 2005
124 kr
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With his first volume of his personal chronicle, Light Years, published to great acclaim in 2002, Augustus Young came to attention as an Irish writer outside the usual conventions, well able to exploit his heritage but not bound by it. His mastery of prose style, humour and ability to adduce within …
