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King

By John Berger

King Contemporary literature

King

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With the poetic acuity that renders his work timeless, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger brings us a twenty-four hour chronicle of homelessness. Beside a highway, in a wasteland furnished with smashed trucks and broken washing machines, lives a homeless community of once-hopeful individuals, now abandoned by the twentieth century. King, our narrator, is the guardian of a homeless couple, stealing meat from the butcher and sharing the warmth of his flesh. His canine sensibility affords him both amnesty from human hardship and rare insight into his companions' lives. Through his senses we see--clearly and unsentimentally--the dignity and strength that can survive within chaos and pain.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2000-11-14
Publication Date:
2000-11-14
Publisher:
Random House UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375705341
ISBN13:
9780375705342
Weight:
211 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
206 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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