Author

Publication

2008 - W.W. Norton & Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

51,000 words, Guess

Page Count

204 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveopalsunsetselect00jame
  • ISBN-139780393067071
  • ISBN-100393067076
  • LibraryThing5808840
  • Goodreads4545675
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Classifications

  • DDC821/.912
  • LCCPR9619.3.J27 O83 2008
  • LCCPR9619.3.J27O83 2008

Description

Opal Sunset gathers together fifty years of Clive Jamesʹs poetry, and will undoubtedly enhance his reputation as one of the most versatile and accomplished of contemporary writers. Indeed -- as with Other Passports, The Book of My Enemy and Angels Over Elsinore before it -- Opal Sunset proves Clive James to be as well suited to the intense demands of the poetic form as he is to prose. Readers new to his verse will not be surprised to find him a master of the comic set-piece and surreal excursion, while those who are familiar with his previous collections will already be aware of his fluency and apparently effortless style, his technical skill and thematic scope. Ultimately, however, the highest recommendation one can give is that Clive James is, in these poems, unmistakably himself -- an assured and dazzling wordsmith.

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Other Editions

  • Opal sunset: selected poems, 1958-2008W.W. Norton & Co.2008-01-01

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