Meredith, Christopher

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ISBN 13:: 9781781726167
author:: Meredith, Christopher
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Seren
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2021
Pages:: 176
Dimensions:: 20.8 x 13.5 x 1.8 centimetres (0
Genre:: Fiction & Literature, Literary, ,
Condition:: New
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Octogenarian Vernon's attempt to write the story of his courtship and marriage from the 1960s to today is a comically elegant struggle with language. His lifelong obsessions are dictionaries, reference books, and old novels, which he uses to concoct and wrestle with his 'voice'.

From beneath Vernon's struggles emerges a picture of a man and woman across half a century, revealing how passion, infidelities, and obsessions can be undercurrents in even the most ordinary lives. This is a love story about the impossibility of being in love and the impossibility of telling stories.

With sophisticated control, Meredith explores how hard it is to know yourself or others, and how language has the power to conceal as much as it reveals. A tragicomedy that touches on themes of isolation and male frailty, Please is a complex and dazzling psychological and linguistic entertainment with a surprising denouement.

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