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Biographical note
Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six non-fiction books including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear was selected by the New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia, and served as President of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.
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[Godwin] is excellent at bringing in literary allusions to capture the gossamer quality of memory, skipping lightly but illuminatingly from Dorothy Parker to Emily Dickinson and from Philip Larkin to Vladimir Nabokov . . . Godwin takes palpable pleasure in language, and sometimes this produces poetry . . . <i>Exit Wounds</i> is an elegant, cerebral book
* Sunday Times *
A profound account of this strange time of life we're all in - when all the certainties we thought we'd sorted out are collapsing around us and we're suddenly like naked children in the wilderness . . . This moving memoir is an essential addition to Peter Godwin's brilliant oeuvre
- CLAIRE MESSUD,
Finely wrought, contemplative, intimate, lyrical and searingly emotionally honest, <i>Exit Wounds</i> is a story of war and love and of tragedy. In a life that has been marked by loss: of a birthright, a nation, of family and finally of his marriage, Peter Godwin traverses the wilderness of grief towards redemption. <i>Exit Wounds</i> will leave you breathless and imprint itself indelibly upon your heart
- AMINATTA FORNA,
So funny, so elegant, so erudite, and as a portrait of an extraordinary mother and the family she made, it is masterful, moving and unforgettable
- DAVE EGGERS,
Like Rembrandt, each unflinching portrait-in-prose illuminates Peter Godwin's extraordinary life. His masterwork
- RICHARD E. GRANT,
Smart, observant, touching . . . deeply affecting
* Spectator *
Magnificent and moving
- TAN TWAN ENG,
A memoir on love, loss and life, of rare candour and intimacy, utterly compelling, by a truly brilliant writer
- PHILIPPE SANDS,
This is an exceptional memoir, its stories told with such immediacy that the reader lives Godwin's days with him . . . Few people have described better the anguish of separation, the constant sense of not belonging, the quest for a centre that might hold. He writes humorously; but there is no mistaking the pain
* Times Literary Supplement *
Unforgettable . . . I was so enchanted by Godwin's prose, his insights, his deft use of imagery and the conversations between mother and son, husband and wife, brother and sister - some heartbreaking, some funny, some walking that tightrope between - that I didn't want this brilliant book to end
- MAGGIE SMITH,
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six non-fiction books including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear was selected by the New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia, and served as President of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.
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