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Title: AND OUR FACES, MY HEART, BRIEF AS PHOTOS
By: John Berger
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0747576912
ISBN 13: 9780747576914
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Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 18 April, 2005
Pages: 112
Description: This is a collection of fragments about time and space by a writer and critic.
Synopsis: 'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ...In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'. When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and indelible from the minds of those who read it. This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above Berger's surprising landscapes. From his lyrical description of the works of Caravaggio and profound explorations of death and immigration to the sight of some lilac at dusk in the mountains, this is a beautiful and most intimate response to the world around us.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Returns: Returnable
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