Fredy Neptune
A Novel In Verse
A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize.I never learned the old top ropes,I was always in steam. Less capstan, less climbing,more re-stowing cargo. Which could be hard and slowas farming- but to say Why this is Valparaiso!Or: I'm in Singapore and know my way abouttakes a long time to get stale.-from Book I, The Middle SeaWhen German-Australian sailor Friedrich Fredy Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his se…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4668-9480-8
- EAN: 9781466894808
- Produktnummer: 22456467
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 439 KB
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Les Murray
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