BOOKS - Chapman's Odyssey
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Chapman's Odyssey
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2012
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
Year: 2012
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
So here he was at last where he had long feared to beHarry Chapman is not well and he doesnt like hospitals Superficially all is as it normally is in such places with nurses to chide him and a priest to console But there are more than usual quotient of voices is it because of Dr Pereiras wonder drug that he can hear the voice of his mother acerbic and disappointed in him as ever Perhaps her presence would be understandable enough but what is Pip from Great Expectations doing here More and more voices add their differing notes and stories to the chorus squabbling cajoling commenting Friends from childhood lovers characters from novels and poetry His father fighting in the First World War Babar and Celeste who dances with Fred Astaire Jane Austens Emma His aunt Rose a stranger to moodiness Christopher Smarts cat Jeoffrey A man who wants to sell him T S Eliots teeth Virginia Woolf the scourge of servants And of course an old friend who turns up at his bedside principally to rehearse the litany of his own ailmentsSlowly endearingly the life of Harry Chapman coalesces before our eyes through voices real and unreal Written with a gentle effortless generosity full of delicate observation Chapmans Odyssey is the work of a master a superbly rendered act of storytelling and ventriloquism that is waspish witty deeply moving and wise by turns and which constantly explores the unsolvable enigma of love
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