Averse to Beasts (Book & Cassette) - Hardcover

Bantock, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811807002 ISBN 13: 9780811807005

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Bantock, Nick

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Bantock's (Griffin & Sabine) light verse is enhanced by his color illustrations in this small, fetching book. As an example, look at his painting of a befanged, richly chestnut-colored dog, muzzle soft and thick with wrinkles; the accompanying poem is "Dog Tired," seven lines of sly complaint from a narrator who's being bitten by the dog in question. "The Warrior's Way," about a "highly toxic Warrior fly" and the fly's offing by a human with a swatter, accompanies the image of a purple-and-black-striped creature who has been split in half and surrounded by minuscule blood spatters. The color's rewarding; so is Bantock's graphic precision in words and pictures. One of the most deft poems is "Unthinking Drinking," about a small fish aswim in a glass of whiskey who survives a 40-day drunk only to burst from the glass and perish.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811807002
• ISBN 13: 9780811807005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64