The Great Explosion

Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes

The Great Explosion

Dillon, Brian

Editorial Penguin Books Ltd
Fecha de edición febrero 2016 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780241956762
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Resumen del libro

This is the Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place. In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more.
In a brilliant piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity one of Britain's strangest and most remarkable landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years.
The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry from one of our most brilliant writers. "The Great Explosion is exhilarating and moving and lyrical. It is a quiet evisceration of a landscape through the discovery of a lost history of destructiveness, a meditation on Englishness, an autobiography, a mapping of absences.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Brian Dillonx{0026}lt;/strong (Dublín, 1969) es autor de x{0026}lt;em The Great Explosionx{0026}lt;/em (finalista del Premio Ondaatje), x{0026}lt;em Objects in This Mirrorx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em I Am Sitting in a Roomx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Sanctuaryx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Livesx{0026}lt;/em (finalista del Wellcome Book Prize) e x{0026}lt;em In the Dark Roomx{0026}lt;/em (Irish Book Award para obras de no ficción); en Anagrama ha publicado x{0026}lt;em Ensayismo x{0026}lt;/em e x{0026}lt;em Imaginemos una frasex{0026}lt;/em . Es profesor de Escritura Creativa en la Queen Mary University of London.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Fotografía del autor Sophie Davidsonx{0026}lt;/p





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