Loss

Harsent, David

ISBN 10: 0571290566 / ISBN 13: 9780571290567

Published by Faber & Faber, 2022

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Seller Inventory # wbs3357954016

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loss
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571290566
• ISBN 13: 9780571290567
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 150 grams

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Synopsis

The city never sleeps silence would weaken it
when all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of
machinery dark undertone.

It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come.

A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a white landscape. This fragmentary vigil anchors a series of narrative sections in which a dramatic voice gives, first, an account of the man, then addresses him directly. We learn of a conflicted childhood, of love lost to circumstance, of the press of death on the protagonist’s waking thoughts. He is a man afflicted by personal loss, but also a man of his time, all too aware of the troubled world in which he lives. In this powerful sequence, Harsent’s breathtaking formal skills are always in evidence. Intense, lyrical and passionate, Loss makes for enthralling reading.