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Title: The Waste Land
Condition: New
Author: Martin Rowson
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0857420410
EAN: 9780857420411
ISBN: 9780857420411
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Genre: Manga
Release Date: 12/10/2012
Description: In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is inspired in equal parts by the classic modernist poem and by the American noir novels of Raymond Chandler. Marlowe, searching for his dead partner's killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair, and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, duped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops, and going nowhere fast, Marlowe enters a nightmare world where Robert Frost, Norman Mailer, and Edmund Wilson drink in the gloom of a London pub; where Auden is glimpsed entering the men's room; where Henry James, Aldous Huxley, and Richard Wagner share an ice cream aboard a Thames pleasure steamer; and where, out of luck and out of clues, Marlowe finally tracks down T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Available again for the first time in a decade, this is an unforgettably strange trip through modern literature with one of Britain's best writers and illustrators.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 23mm
Item Length: 16mm
Item Width: 1mm
Item Weight: 142g
Release Year: 2012

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