The great hunger

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This title is one of 50 new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic ‘Penguin Modern Classics’ series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Stevie Smith; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outerspace.

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‘I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided . . .’

By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece ‘The Great Hunger’, some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Weight 0.044 kg
Dimensions 16.1 × 11.1 × 0.4 cm
Book_author

Kavanagh, Patrick

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Imprint

Penguin Classics

Cover

Paperback

Pages

64

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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