Sugar Mile
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A topical and accessible collection, The Sugar Mile takes its readers on a journey from wartime London to modern-day America. In a series of monologues, each beautifully drawn and intimate, Glyn Maxwell details the effects and experiences of conflict: the sense of community bounded by a distrust of strangers and foreigners; whole streets razed to the ground; homes lost, possessions misplaced and characters displaced; fears for loved-ones offset by tentative bargains with god; casual encounters given an intense, unreal edge by the context in which they occur; the routine drama and unfamiliar ‘everydayness’ of bombs, blackouts, shelters, temporary accommodation and evacuation . . . With painstaking clarity and honesty, Maxwell has captured the surrealism of a world under siege -- whether WWII or the war on terror declared post 9/11.
Glyn Maxwell is an acclaimed poet, playwright, novelist and critic, who has won numerous awards for his work, including the Somerset Maugham, Geoffrey Faber, and Cholmondeley Prizes. He has also been shortlisted seven times for the Costa, Forward and T.S. Eliot. The Sugar Mile is one of his three volumes that were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.