Fill the World
$32.11
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
Even the greyest world contains within it more colour than a mortal heart can bear.
- In a plain room in St Augustine’s Home for the Aged and Infirm, Chicago, a life is drawing to a close. Isolated and eccentric, Henry Darger has spent his days shuffling between his apartment, daily Mass and the hospital where he worked as a janitor, occasionally scouring bins and kerbsides for newspaper clippings and treasures to add to his collection.
The world ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349148786 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349148783 |
| Author: | Keiran Goddard |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
A divine monologue of hallucinatory clarity, an unparalleled channeling of a bruised and extraordinary genius. Goddard does more than bring Darger to life here - he brings the whole life of the mind, the hubris, joy and terror of art, faith and love. Without hedging, without a drop of irony; a level and piercing gaze. Fill The World is a unique and singular achievement by one of our absolute best – Luke Kennard, author of Black Bag
Keiran Goddard
Keiran Goddard grew up in Shard End, Birmingham in a working-class family. He is the author of one poetry pamphlet, two poetry collections, and the novels Hourglass and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. His debut collection was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize, he was the runner-up in the William Blake Prize, and Hourglass was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. He speaks internationally on issues related to social change and currently develops research on workers’ rights, the future of work, automation, and trade unionism.
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