The Professor of Poetry
$24.39
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2014
Summary
Elizabeth Stone, a respected academic, has a new lease on life. In remission from cancer, she returns to the city where she was a student over thirty years ago to investigate some little-known papers by T. S. Eliot, which she believes contain the seeds of her masterpiece: a masterpiece that centres on a poem given to her when she was eighteen by the elusive Professor Hunt…
But as the days pass in the city she loves, and her friendship with Professor Hunt is rekindled, her memories ret…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444769982 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444769987 |
| Author: | Grace McCleen |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 243g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 133mm x 20mm |
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Moving and beautiful … this is a remarkable piece of work, empathetic, intelligent and genuinely poetic
McCleen doesn’t make Elizabeth easy to like and this is part of the professor’s charm. She doesn’t “do” summer, most definitely does not do love poetry, and would like to teach Virginia Woolf a thing or two about semicolons. Particularly well captured is that streak of selfishness, often masquerading as self-sacrifice, that seems so prevalent among the gifted and the driven… an intricate tapestry in which past and present mingle to mesmerising effect… what eloquence! There are sentences here of such agile cleverness, charged with wit and beauty and enchantment. - Observer - Hephzibah Anderson
It’s McCleen’s unflinching dedication to detail that will enchant readers. This novel has obviously been pored over, cherished and perfected…[her] graceful weaving through the present and past of her main character produces an intriguing - and original - story. - StylistAbout The Author
Grace McCleen
Grace McCleen’s first novel, The Land of Decoration, was published in 2012 and awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize for the best first novel of the year. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Award, chosen for Richard & Judy’s Book Club, won the 2013 Betty Trask Prize and has been translated into nineteen languages. Grace read English at the University of Oxford and has an MA from York, and currently lives in London.
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