The Quickening Maze
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The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, this book centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare.
"Impressive.. The key to this success is the concentration of Fould's writing, which manages to seem both simultaneously poised and flowing in its urgency" -- Andrew Motion The Guardian "In The Quickening Maze, Foulds displays in abundance the same kind of precision of observation and empathy of imagination that he gives here to Clare...The world he evokes...is conjured up with remarkable intensity and economy of means. It is impossible to guess where Foulds will travel next in his fiction, but it is safe to assume that the journey with him will be well worth taking" -- Nick Rennison The Sunday Times "The language is simple, sometimes adorned with fleeting and apt images: the sky is 'cloud-breeding', summer clouds are 'curds'" -- Phillip Womack Literary Review "The chief pleasure of the book is its prose: exquisite yet measured, precise, attentive to the world" -- Neel Murkerjee Sunday Telegraph "Fould's exceptional novel is like a lucid dream: earthy and true, but shifting, metamorphic - the word-perfect fruit of a poet's sharp eye and noevlist's limber reach" -- Tom Gatti The Times
Adam Foulds was born in 1974, took a Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and now lives in South London. His first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times, was published in 2007 and his book-length narrative poem, The Broken Word, the following year. He was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224087469 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224087460 |
| Title | The Quickening Maze |
| Author | Adam Foulds |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of The South Bank Show Awards: Literature 2010, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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