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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 200 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Description: In this book you will be led to a place you haven't been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog--or is he a dog? --to a wasteland beside the highway called Saint Valéry. Here, at the end of the twentieth century, among smashed trucks, old boilers, and broken washing machines, live Liberto, Malak, Jack, Corinna, Danny, Anna, Joachim, Saul, Alfonso, and Vico and Vica. Listen to King's voice as he tells a different kind of story: twenty-four hours pass and lives are lived. It is good to have survived another winter, for now it is spring, when the nights, though cold, are no longer harsh enough to kill. The wet season is over, and with it the hopelessness of damp. Today the sun will shine: of what else will the day be made? King is at once a furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience. The bitter yet celebratory prose speaks to us all. Ingram From one of the most distinguished and versatile writers of our time comes a hauntingly beautiful novel about the complexities of emotion and experience in a community of the homeless. From the Publisher "King, like most all of John Berger's work, is marked by sensitivity to the dark drift of f civilization and his ability to cast his insights into dramatic prose. He is an astute, compassionate, and compelling observer of the barbarism of our age. His novels and his essays are a kind of warning. "--Barry Lopez From the Back Cover "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...
