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The Invention of Dr Cake
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Invention of Dr Cake
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Sir Andrew Motion
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:160 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 126 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780571216321
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Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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Publication Date |
1 April 2004 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, poet laureate, has written a tantalizing novel about poets and their afterlife.
Author Biography
Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He read English at University College, Oxford and subsequently spent two years writing about the poetry of Edward Thomas for an M. Lit. From 1976 to 1980 he taught English at the University of Hull; from 1980 to 1982 he edited the Poetry Review, and from 1982 to 1989 he was Editorial Director and Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is a member of the Arts Council of England and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Andrew Motion is the author of eight books of poems, of four biographies, including the authorized life of Philip Larkin, and of critical studies of Larkin and Edward Thomas. He has been the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Dylan Thomas Award and the Whitbread Prize for Biography.Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in May 1999. He lives in London with his wife and their three child
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