King: A Street Story - Rilegato

Berger, John

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ISBN 10: 0375405569 ISBN 13: 9780375405563

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1999

Riassunto

A streetwise canine who lives with a vagrant couple, Vica and Vico, describes life in a homeless community, in which its inhabitants rely on one another for both physical sustenance and emotional preservation, until a fatal attack on the community forever alters all their lives

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Recensione:

"Much of John Berger's writing has been concerned with the destruction of village life and rituals by the mechanized urban monster. King takes up these themes, concentrating on those who have lost most in this brave new world: the street-dwellers. The narrator is King, a dog living with a disparate group of down-and-outs in the shadow of a motorway. . . . Berger suggests that the city, in its increasing decadence, may prove unwittingly to be the catalyst for human renewal. His ambition to explore his political and moral beliefs through fiction has never been more fully realized."
--Ian Critchley, Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

John Berger is a novelist, storyteller, poet, screenwriter, and art critic. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including To the Wedding, the Into Their Labours trilogy (Pig Earth, Once in Europa, and Lilac and Flag), About Looking, Ways of Seeing, and G., for which he won the Booker Prize. Berger lives in a small rural community in France.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375405569
• ISBN 13: 9780375405563
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 189