Synopsis In this collection of lyrical brief prose pieces, novelist and critic John Berger explores love and loss, the relationship of love to absence, and the way these things have been dealt with, historically, in poetry and in art.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1992-03-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 1 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Publisher's Note In an extraordinary distillation of his gifts as a novelist, poet, art critic, and social historian, John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance or prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time.
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