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The Sugar Mile

By: Glyn Maxwell

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Paperback | 4 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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144 Pages

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19.8 x 13 x 1.1

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A series of loosely-connected monologues, combining observations about modern-day America with family reminiscences about wartime London.

A topical and accessible collection, The Sugar Mile takes its readers on a journey from wartime London to modern-day America. In a series of monologues, each beautifully drawn and intimate, Glyn Maxwell details the effects and experiences of conflict: the sense of community bounded by a distrust of strangers and foreigners; whole streets razed to the ground; homes lost, possessions misplaced and characters displaced; fears for loved-ones offset by tentative bargains with god; casual encounters given an intense, unreal edge by the context in which they occur; the routine drama and unfamiliar "everydayness" of bombs, blackouts, shelters, temporary accommodation and evacuation...

With painstaking clarity and honesty, Maxwell has captured the surrealism of a world under siege-whether WWII or the war on terror declared post 9/11.

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"Clearly the work of the major poet of his generation, boldly expanding the canvas and means of his art." --James Wood

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