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portada Orlam
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
19.8 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
Weight
0.64 kg.
ISBN13
9781529063110
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Orlam

Pj Harvey (Author) · Picador · Hardcover

Orlam - Harvey, Pj

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Synopsis "Orlam "

A beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by musician and writer PJ Harvey. Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals, children's songs, chants, and superstitions of the rural West Country of England, Ira-Abel creates the twin realm through which she can make sense of an increasingly confusing and frightening world. Orlam follows Ira and the inhabitants of UNDERWHELEM month by month through the last year of her childhood innocence. The result is a poem-sequence of light and shadow--suffused with hints of violence, sexual confusion and perversion, the oppression of family, but also ecstatic moments in sunlit clearings, song, and bawdy humour. Orlam is not only a remarkable coming-of-age tale, but the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades. Includes a facing-page English translation. Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet--whose formal skill and transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other.

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