Fatherhood by Caleb Klaces - ISBN: 9781916052017
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The debut novel from Caleb Klaces, combining prose and poetry in an experimental work of verse fiction. Moving between history, memory and autobiography, its shifting form captures a life and language split open by fatherhood. An experiment in rewriting masculinity, it asks how bodies can share both…

Fatherhood

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    4 November 2019

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Summary

Fatherhood is the debut novel from award-winning poet Caleb Klaces, combining prose and poetry in an experimental work of verse fiction.

Following the birth of their first child, a couple move out of the capital to the northern countryside, where they believe the narrator’s great-grandfather, a Russian emigrant, was laid to rest. The father dedicates himself to parenting, writing and conversation with his dead ancestor, newly conscious of the ties that bind the present…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781916052017
ISBN-10:1916052010
Author:Caleb Klaces
Publisher:Prototype Publishing Ltd.
Imprint:Prototype Publishing Ltd.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:4 November 2019
Weight:140g
Dimensions:20mm x 178mm x 112mm
About The Author

Caleb Klaces

Caleb Klaces is a poet and novelist. His most recent book is the poetry collection Away From Me (Prototype, 2021) and his debut novel, Fatherhood (Prototype, 2019), won a Northern Fiction Award and was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. His first poetry collection, Bottled Air (Eyewear, 2013), won the Melita Hume Prize and an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. He was a winner of Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2001 and 2002.

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