Bill Of Rights - Softcover

D'aguiar, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701165251 ISBN 13: 9780701165253

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1998

Synopsis

Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date of Publication: 1998
Binding: soft cover
Edition:
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 0701165251

About this title

Book Description:

Prize-winning poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar's new work is a brilliantly inventive narrative poem which takes the reader into the psyche of a young man caught up in the mass suicide that took place in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.

From the Back Cover:

Bill of Rights, a narrative poem, is a new work by acclaimed poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar. It tells the extraordinary story of the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana from the point of view of a young man who has been seduced by the false rhetoric of the Reverend Jim Jones. In verse that mixes a gallimaufry of linguistic registers and moves through an exhilarating range of rhythms from the repetitions of biblical language to the riffs of popular music, D'Aguiar looks at the nature of religou zealotry and the suffering and stalwartness of one of its victims.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0701165251
• ISBN 13: 9780701165253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144