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What the Twilight Says: Essays.
by Walcott, Derek
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374526834
- ISBN 13
- 9780374526832
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, small crease top edge last few pages, edges lightly marked, remainder mark top edge. 244 pp. A collection of essays published by Derek Walcott, the Nobel Laureate poet, in the New York Review of Books, New Republic and other publications. The collection includes his examination of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel Lecture, and his reckoning of the work of several poets. A volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. Also about the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25736
- Title
- What the Twilight Says: Essays.
- Author
- Walcott, Derek
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st p/b ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374526834
- ISBN 13
- 9780374526832
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- literature criticism, essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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