Breath - Softcover
As night unfolds, the plane travels through storms across the civil war-ravaged country, to deliver a lung from a boy killed in an accident to a waiting transplant recipient — an old man, fighting for breath — a northerner, with blood on his hands.
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Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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"A bleakly powerful ending with a moving, finely contrived element of hope" * Times Literary Supplement * "Beautifully spare, poetic prose...A haunting book" * Metro * "A thoughtful reminder of the wounds of conflict, and the depths of its scars... a clever, innovative, unusual book which is both timeless and timely" * Scotsman * "A well-paced narrative with carefully crafted twists...intensely visual descriptions... Inventive in its form and often profound in its poetry, Symmons Roberts' gripping story is a meditation on the difficulty of forgiveness in wartime" * Sunday Telegraph * "Symmons Roberts is already a poet of note, and this...is discernibly a poet's book. Short and introspective, it stays in the mind and echoes" * The Times *
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099497239
- ISBN 13 9780099497233
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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