The Perfect Stranger by P J Kavanagh
Written with a poets precision, The Perfect Stranger is a funny, absorbing and brilliantly portrayed rite of passage. Driving the narrator is a desire to recount the effect of a singular young woman; the love of her and the loss of her.
Funny, unique and powerfulA wise, sad, wonderfully written memoir that's ripe for rediscovery. -- David Nicholls A fine memorial to love and youth. -- Michael Frayn, author of Headlong and Spies I've re-read The Perfect Stranger many times and still think it, though unique, a model "of its kind". -- Derek Mahon To hear the truth so devastatingly and yet so joyfully encountered is rare in an age where autobiography has been flattened by the massed weight of political and public reminiscence. This autobiography, from its beginning to its bitter end, is a celebration of joy: joy in youth, in woman, in male camaraderie, in the struggle of art, in married love. -- The Times Literary Supplement
P. J. Kavanagh (1931-2015) was a poet, writer, actor, broadcaster and columnist. He went to a Benedictine school, served in the Korean war during national service, worked for the British Council in Barcelona and Indonesia, and acted on stage and TV - his last appearance in an episode of Father Ted. The Perfect Stranger was awarded the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize in 1966, and his novel A Song and Dance won the 1968 Guardian Fiction Prize. Poetry remained his major occupation, and his Collected Poems was given the Cholmondeley Award in 1992.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910463017 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910463019 |
| Title | The Perfect Stranger |
| Author | P J Kavanagh |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | September Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 214 |
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