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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Sugar Mile
• Author: Glyn Maxwell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780330438247
• ISBN: 0330438247
• ID: 04443265
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 144 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. March 2005

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