Name: The Coming Thing (en Inglés)
Price: 12.10 USD
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Author: Martina Evans
ISBN: 9781800173453

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Autor

Martina Evans

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781800173453

The Coming Thing (en Inglés)

Martina Evans (Autor) · Carcanet Press Ltd. · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Coming Thing (en Inglés)"

The Coming Thing is a brilliant long narrative poem. It is not Evans's first: she has become celebrated for work on this scale, spoken, dramatic, abundant. Imelda, the book's central character, is immersed in challenging new worlds where old customs still somehow survive. It is the 1980s and the poem takes shape among punks in Cork City. The 'coming thing' refers to the arrival of computers which were taking hold and beginning to effect their transformations of data and then of lives; but ultimately the title identifies the abortion which Imelda will have in a Brixton clinic. Imelda, who Evans's regular readers will recall from her earlier narrative Petrol (2012), narrates the story with a light touch, even when the book's preoccupation with abortion, suicide and euthanasia provides a strong and compelling undertow. The Coming Thing looks hard at the duplicity surrounding received ideas about the sacredness of human life and how economic change runs counter to the values of 'old' Ireland.