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Time's Fool : A Tale in Verse by Glyn Maxwell (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100618073884
ISBN-139780618073887
eBay Product ID (ePID)1685129
Product Key Features
Book TitleTime's Fool : a Tale in Verse
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
GenrePoetry
TypeTextbook
AuthorGlyn Maxwell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-061327
ReviewsBeautiful and moving and authentic poetry can be written today; and we know this not least because Glyn Maxwell is writing it., "Glyn Maxwell has learned to do what all good poets do -- he makes a world fresh again, a world you never knew existed." --William Logan, NEW CRITERION Maxwell has the dramatist's skill to set his characters in motion and orchestrate them . . . and the poet's knack for rhythmical pathos." Guardian Beautiful and moving and authentic poetry can be written today; and we know this not least because Glyn Maxwell is writing it." New Republic, "Glyn Maxwell has learned to do what all good poets do -- he makes a world fresh again, a world you never knew existed." --William Logan, NEW CRITERION "Maxwell has the dramatist's skill to set his characters in motion and orchestrate them . . . and the poet's knack for rhythmical pathos. Guardian "Beautiful and moving and authentic poetry can be written today; and we know this not least because Glyn Maxwell is writing it." New Republic, Maxwell has the dramatist's skill to set his characters in motionand orchestrate them . . . and the poet's knack for rhythmical pathos., "Glyn Maxwell has learned to do what all good poets do -- he makes a world fresh again, a world you never knew existed." --William Logan, NEW CRITERION "Maxwell has the dramatiste(tm)s skill to set his characters in motion and orchestrate them . . . and the poete(tm)s knack for rhythmical pathos.e Guardian "Beautiful and moving and authentic poetry can be written today; and we know this not least because Glyn Maxwell is writing it." New Republic, "Glyn Maxwell has learned to do what all good poets do -- he makes a world fresh again, a world you never knew existed." --William Logan, NEW CRITERION, "Glyn Maxwell has learned to do what all good poets do -- he makes a world fresh again, a world you never knew existed." --William Logan, NEW CRITERION "Maxwell has the dramatist's skill to set his characters in motion and orchestrate them . . . and the poet's knack for rhythmical pathos." Guardian "Beautiful and moving and authentic poetry can be written today; and we know this not least because Glyn Maxwell is writing it." New Republic
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal821/.914
Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition
Table Of ContentChapters (with those years chiefly considered) 1. The Chance in Hell 1 1984 and 1977 2. We Did It in Music 45 1984 3. My First Poem 89 The Train and 1970 4. The Once 133 1970 and the Train 5. Mallarea 177 1991 6. A Child"s Recorder 221 1998 7. Demundo 265 2005 8. Still to Want You Gone 309 2012 9. The Candle Palace 353 2019
SynopsisEdmund Lea perpetually rides a ghost train -- except every seven years on Christmas Eve, when he is allowed to revisit his home town. Like Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Edmund is condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age and watching the world grow older. He tries in vain to break the spell by way of true love, repentance, hedonism; he tries to change the world and he tries to die. Characters move in and out of Maxwell's story like Dante's figures in Hell, but Edmund's own Virgil is a careless and unhelpful poet, a portrait of the author as a student. The tale is told in formal terza rima, but its language and tone, its humor and sense of homesickness, are decidedly contemporary. It is a brilliant achievement., Time's Fool tells the tale of Edmund Lea, a young man condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Edmund perpetually rides a phantom train -- except on Christmas Eve every seven years, when he is allowed to revisit his English hometown. He tries to break the spell by way of love, repentance, and death -- all in vain. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age but watching the world grow older. Infused with a dark humor and an almost unbearable nostalgia, Time's Fool is a brilliant achievement, "classic yet hip, stylized yet inventive" (Scotsman).
LC Classification NumberPR6063.A869T5 2000
