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Synopsis
This book recounts the comedy, passion and the abrupt tragedy P. J. Kavanagh's early years. From a Butlin holiday camp to Switzerland and a battlefield in Korea to Barcelona, Kavanagh's life made little sense to him until he met 'the perfect stranger.' This work is a tender, funny, and unsentimental record of the uniqueness of human love.
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About the Author
P.J. KAVANAGH was born in England in 1931. Wounded in the Korean war, he later went to Oxford. He has worked as a lecturer, actor, broadcaster and columnist and has written novels, two volumes of autobiography and essays, and edited anthologies. His name is closely associated with the poetry of Ivor Gurney, a seminal edition of whose work he prepared in 1982. Carcanet publish two books of his poems and The Perfect Stranger.
Review
'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.' Times Literary Supplement
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The Perfect Stranger
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Chatto & Windus, London, 1972
ISBN 10: 0701108665
ISBN 13: 9780701108663
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Minor creasing to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to corners of light-blue boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The autobiography of poet and writer Patrick Joseph Kavanagh, including his service in the Korean War, Merton College Oxford, and in Java where he worked for the British Council and where his first wife died. Originally published in August 1966, this is a later reprint from April 1972. 224pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 010781
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The Perfect Stranger
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Chatto & Windus Sept. 1966, 1966
ISBN 10: 0701108665
ISBN 13: 9780701108663
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