The Dust Diaries
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Owen Sheers, already picked out as poetry's bright hope by poet laureate Andrew Motion, reveals with The Dust Diaries that he is also a dab hand at biography, travel writing and fiction--all in one gripping book. A stray comment from his grandmother one summer afternoon whets his interest in her uncle--a poet called Arthur Shearly Cripps--and the more Sheers finds out, the more Cripps and his life intrigues him. Gradually, a fragmentary portrait emerges of this distant relative who left England for Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) where he lived as a missionary until his death. Given the assumption of guilt against miss
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Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
Release date: 3 March 2005
ISBN-10 : 0571210260 | ISBN-13: 9780571210268
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Release date: 3 March 2005
ISBN-10 : 0571210260 | ISBN-13: 9780571210268