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Buy this book on-line OKRI**,BEN: : TALES OF FREEDOM. [Author SIGNED+inscribed copy.**]LONDON.RIDER/EBURY PUBLISHING/RANDOM HOUSE,2009. ISBN 9781846041570.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,3rd imp.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten,black felt-tip ink, warm inscrptn: 'To Dawn & John,Best
wishes for the great joys & the great love - stay blessed - Ben Okri (his signature) 17-7-09' to title page.Further writing with 'Dartmouth' also written to title page - assumed a reference to the location of a signing,in a Dartmouth bookshop - no
price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean illustrated dw/dj with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge bright and clean; fore-edges slightly aged/tanned; contents though,bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,5-197pp [paginated] includes 15 stories,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,signed+dedicated/inscribed title page,contents list/table, acknowledgements,books/story separator pages,and 4pp blanks at rear.
As one of Britain's foremost poets,Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language and imagination.
And as a Booker Prize winning novelist, these skills were shown to particular effect in both 'Starbook' and 'The Famished Road'.
In 'Tales of Freedom' he brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form,using writing and image pared down to their essentials,where haiku and story meet.Thus we discover Pinprop,the slave to an old couple lost in a clearing, who seems to hold the keys to the universe in his quirky hands.
Then there is the beautifully dressed black Russian on the train,helping to film a new version of
'Eugene Onegin'.Later,in the chaos of the aftermath of war,orphaned children paint mysterious shapes of bulls,birds hybrid creatures,and we wonder what grief has done to them.... And who is that woman,who hardly speaks,who presses a tiny flower into the palm of the young boy on the bus, and then leaves his life forever?
'Tales of Freedom' offers a haunting necklace of enigmas which flash and sparkle as the light shines on them.Quick and stimulating to read,but slow-burning
in the psyche,they show the wealth of freedom that's available beyond our usual perceptions - and offer a different, more transcendent way of looking at our extreme,gritty world.
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