Wounds - Softcover

Duffy, Maureen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099587378 ISBN 13: 9780099587378

Publisher: Vintage Digital, 2013

Synopsis

Wounds begins with two lovers in bed. Their lovemaking throughout the book forms a recurring lietmotif, a counterpoint to the examination of the spiritual death of the characters.In a South London environment of pub and fairground, home and work, the wounds of 20th century experience are evoked in prose which is both lyrical and precise. Kingy in her garden, loved by the most handsome women in the world; Maura the barmaid: I prefer the little, thin men'; Glisten the Mayor: Itll be take-over time and too late these and the many other characters illustrate the basic theme of the novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Maureen Duffy (b. 1933 in Worthing, Sussex) is a notable contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faerys, a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature.After a tough childhood, Duffy took her degree in English from King's College London. She went on to be a schoolteacher from 1956 to 1961, and edited three editions of a poetry magazine called the sixties. She then turned to writing full-time as a poet and playwright after being commissioned to produce a screenplay by Granada Television. Her first novel, written at the suggestion of a publisher,That's How It Was (1962), was published to great acclaim. Her first openly lesbian novel wasThe Microcosm (1966), set in the famous lesbian Gateways club in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Digital
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099587378
• ISBN 13: 9780099587378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192