The Perfect Stranger

Name: The Perfect Stranger
Brand: September Publishing
SKU: 9781910463291
Price: 13.59 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): P. J. Kavanagh

The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect Stranger is the story of a soldier, a poet and a husband. The author describes it as the story of a rescue -of a young man who emerges from the bleak playing fields of school onto the battlefields of Korea, from the heady chaos of Barcelona into an intense and tragic relationship with a girl called Sally Lehmann. Brutally sad, sharp and wise, this is a classic of the genre. See more

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Weight: 247g
Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
Publication Date: 12 May 2016
Publisher: September Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781910463291

About P. J. Kavanagh

P. J. Kavanagh was a poet writer actor broadcaster and columnist. Born in 1931 son of the radio comedy writer Ted Kavanagh he went to a Benedictine school served in the Korean war during national service and worked for the British Council in Barcelona and Indonesia. He acted on stage and TV - his last appearance in an episode of Father Ted. The Perfect Stranger awarded the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize in 1966 describes his early life. His columns for The Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement (he called them substitute poems) are collected in People and Places (1988) and A Kind of Journal (2003). Poetry remained his major occupation. His New Selected Poems came out in 2014. Earlier collections include Presences (1987) An Enchantment (1991) and Something About (2004). His Collected Poems was given the Cholmondeley Award in 1992. His novel A Song and Dance won the 1968 Guardian Fiction Prize. His other novels are A Happy Man People and Weather and Only by Mistake and for younger readers Scarf Jack and Rebel for Good. A travel-autobiography Finding Connections traces his Irish forebears in New Zealand. He edited G. K. Chesterton and Ivor Gurney and the anthologies Voices in Ireland The Oxford Book of Short Poems (with James Michie) and A Book of Consolations. P. J. died in August 2015 in the Cotswold hills where he had come to live with his wife and two sons over forty years before.