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How to Disappear

Amanda Dalton author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Published:24th Jun '99

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How to Disappear shines a torch into the dark corners and finds a world inhabited by the missing and the dead, by monsters and wounded beasts, discarded dreams and the memories of strangers – a trawl through the apparently empty spaces and what might be found there. At its heart is the narrative sequence Room of Leaves. It is 1959. Grace, at last, falls in love. Jilted at the altar, she sets up home in the garden of her mother’s bungalow and waits, for thirty years, in a world of birds and bright umbrellas, for Frank to return…

  • Short-listed for Waterstone's Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 1999

ISBN: 9781852245009

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm

Weight: 110g

80 pages