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Synopsis
Aphorism (n.): a pithy observation which contains a general truth
'All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know'
The Book of Shadows contains several hundred reflections and aphorisms on love, God, art, sex, death, work, and the spirit, imagination and conduct of the human animal. Writing with the same mixture of high seriousness, dark humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Don Paterson has made a book to carry everywhere and open anywhere - to brighten or darken the moment, but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind.
'Falling and flying are near-identical sensations, in all but one final detail. We should remember this when we see those men and women seemingly in love with their own decline'
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...By turns contentious, rude, hilarious, moving and truthful... A book you'll dip into for the rest of your life. -- Ian Rankin in Sunday Telegraph, November 2004
...Demonstrates that it is possible to write lightly about the weightiest things (and things that have no weight at all). -- John Gray in New Statesman, November 2004
...Fuses prose and poetry into a cross between a duel and a mediation. -- Jeanette Winterson in Evening Standard, November 2004
Contentious, rude, hilarious, moving and truthful -- Ian Rankin, Sunday Telegraph
Don Paterson's collection of aphorisms is clever, addictive and funny -- Nick Hornby, Guardian
a brave and brilliant attempt to reintroduce the aphorism as a literary genre in the English-speaking world -- Alain de Botton, Daily Telegraph
fuses prose and poetry into a cross between a duel and a meditation -- Jeanette Winterston, Evening Standard
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‘Don Paterson's collection of aphorisms, The Book of Shadows , is clever, addictive and funny’ Nick Hornby 'Books of the Year' Guardian
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0330431846
- ISBN 13 9780330431842
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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