Summary
In the dice cup, then, life becomes not a design but a wager; not an adventure but a game…
Brimming with brio and brilliance, John Fuller’s latest collection comprises exquisite philosophical arguments, dream visions, aphorisms, precise portraits, colourful fables and tableaux of life. But here too lie shadows - in departures and deteriorations, in a life balanced delicately between the known and the unknown.
Taken together, The Dice Cup unfolds like a Chinese box of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780701188368 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0701188367 |
| Author: | John Fuller |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 122g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 8mm |
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John Fuller has achieved a melding of form and content as profound and…as original as any in The Dice Cup , with a poise and beauty that prose…cannot conjure
John Fuller has achieved a melding of form and content as profound and…as original as any in The Dice Cup, with a poise and beauty that prose…cannot conjure – William Wootten * The Times Literary Supplement *One of England’s greatest poets * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
John Fuller
John Fuller, born in Ashford, Kent, is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His collection Stones and Fires (1996) was awarded the Forward Prize; Ghosts (2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy (2006) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and The Grey Among the Green (1988), Song & Dance (2008) and Pebble & I (2010) were all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His 1983 novel Flying to Nowhere won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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