Sean O'Brien

Silence Room (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of Sean O'Brien's fiction debut. Idlers and idolisers alike can be referenced, in body or in text, among the crepuscular alcoves and dim staircases of this seemingly unassuming building. The secret to a family curse, a dog-eared first edition of Stevens Harmonium, the gruesome fate of a feminist literary theorist - all are available to simply take down from the shelf, as are the catalogue of genres and subject areas that O'Brien himself effortlessly deploys: from gothic horror to English pastoral, Critical Theory to Cold War noir. Take a walk between these shelves. Crack the spine and the blow the dust off lives unlived because, so far, they are unread. Become, if you dare, as trapped as them...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Comma Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781912697007
• Artikelnr.: 62770315

Autorenporträt

Sean O'Brien is the former editor of The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland After 1945 and has published seven collections of verse, including Downriver; The Drowned Book, awarded the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize; The Indoor Park, awarded the Somerset Maugham Award; Inferno, The Frighteners; Ghost Train; and HMS Glasshouse.