| Photocopies: Encounters Contributor(s): Berger, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679755179 ISBN-13: 9780679755173 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes of life, these twenty-nine "photocopies" teach us about lying and self-invention, dignity and tenderness, charity and courage. Overflowing with the sights, sounds, and smells of life, Photocopies is a masterpiece from one of the most important chroniclers of our time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.16" W x 7.98" (0.44 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Booker Prize-winning author John Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes of life, these twenty-nine photocopies teach us about lying and self-invention, dignity and tenderness, charity and courage. Overflowing with the sights, sounds, and smells of life, Photocopies is a masterpiece from one of the most important chroniclers of our time. |