Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle
A number of poems in this new collection take their cue from Stendhal, whose characteristic blend of artfulness and candour - particularly evident in his unreliable memoirs - is sustained throughout the book. In material ranging form intimate narratives to social commentary. Boyle takes self-deception, mixed motives and honest misunderstandings as the norms of human behaviour, and delights in the comedy of errors that results.
"'Brilliant.. Boyle's disaffection - middle-class, middle-aged, in a listless millennial culture - is rendered in a perversely attentive and humorous fashion, which itself almost compensates for the anomle and despair.' Guardian From reviews of Paleface: 'Howlingly funny... Boyle is a fine poet of the city - the solitary, broken-biscuit aspect of it, and of its rituals.' Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times 'Boyle's details resonate with historical and social awareness: his elegant, atmospheric concision achieves the effect of a radically compressed short story. And above all, the disengaged aspect of his poems is modified by an engaging self-consciousness.' Simon Carnell, Times Literary Supplement 'Sharp and skewed takes on our haplessly systemic mongrel existence.' Michael Hofmann, The Times"
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571206674 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571206670 |
| Title | Age of Cardboard and String |
| Author | Charles Boyle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2001-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 2001, Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2001 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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