The Horseman's Word - Hardcover

Garfitt, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224089862 ISBN 13: 9780224089869

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2011

Synopsis

The Horseman's Word A memoir where Roger Garfitt takes us into his confidence as he tries on different selves, from stable boy to jazz dancer, from Oxford dandy to Sixties drop-out. It provides an account of what it is like to feel the world too acutely, to love too obsessively, to go right to the very edge and, miraculously, survive.

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Review:

"Roger Garfitt's compelling journey takes in an intensely remembered childhood, the feverish disconnects and forced logic of a 'fine madness' during young manhood, and an eventual domestic calm that has, nonetheless, its own sense of risk. The writing is hauntingly evocative. No one, having picked up this book, could willingly put it down." (David Harsent)

"This astonishing memoir is to run-of-the-mill autobiography what poetry is to prose, dancing to walking. Elizabeth Bishop called it writing in 'experience time' - this artist's ability to select from an objective chronology of months and years exactly those blocks of memory he needed to construct an absorbing, un-put-downable collage of himself. As a portrait of a poet growing up as war-worn England became swinging England in the 1950s and 60s, I can't believe it could be bettered." (Anne Stevenson)

"It is a book to be savoured" (Scarlett MccGwire Tribune)

Book Description:

A wonderfully written memoir by an acclaimed poet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0224089862
• ISBN 13: 9780224089869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384