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Extravagant Stranger Daniel Roy Connelly

Extravagant Stranger By Daniel Roy Connelly

Extravagant Stranger by Daniel Roy Connelly

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Summary

Ian Fleming's Bond meets the lyricism of Rimbaud in this fast-paced, genre-defying debut, encompassing six decades and three continents of absurd and often life-threatening experience.

Extravagant Stranger Summary

Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly

Ian Fleming's Bond meets the lyricism of Rimbaud in this fast-paced, genre-defying debut, encompassing six decades and three continents of absurd and often life-threatening experience. At once personal and hauntingly universal, Extravagant Stranger is the compelling memoir of self-professed 'global scalliwag' Daniel Roy Connelly - former diplomat, theatre director, Shakespeare scholar and conscience-stricken father. Laced with international intrigue and hilarious moments of well-aimed self-scrutiny, here is a book - like the life it relates - truly without comparison.

Extravagant Stranger Reviews

"These are glowing, moving prose poems of hallucinatory intensity. The wit and bracing honesty of the memories, from awkward to adulatory, take you through a powerfully personal journey (for the reader as much as the writer) in each poem and in the sequence overall. The sense of timing is exquisite. A masterclass in how to turn a scene, a moment, so that it catches the light just so in the final sentence. Connelly combines the autobiographical courage of Heaney and Hill with the symbolic technique and the reach and ambition of the French masters of the form and the effect is mesmerising." - LUKE KENNARD || "A collection of personal moments so delicately described that they feel universal, Connelly's 'Extravagant' Stranger is an acutely honest exposition of a life lived poetically." - AARON KENT || "Daniel Roy Connelly is a crackerjack fabulist with top-banana timing. His wordplay is infectious." - HELEN IVORY || "Connelly is one of the most strikingly original writers I've heard in a while - witty, keenly insightful, with a droll, pitch-perfect sense of timing, his work feels like a refreshing wake-up call." - NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

About Daniel Roy Connelly

A former British diplomat, Daniel R Connelly is a theatre director, actor and professor of creative writing, English and theatre at John Cabot University and the American University of Rome. He has acted in and directed theatre in America, the UK, Italy and China, where his 2009 production of David Henry Hwang's M Butterfly was forced to close by the Chinese secret police. His poetry is widely published in print and online. He was the winner of the 2014 Fermoy International Poetry Festival Prize, a finalist in the 2015 Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Prize and winner of the 2015 Cuirt New Writing Prize for poetry. Recent work has appeared in The North, The Transnational (in German), Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Moth, Acumen and Critical Survey and he has a forthcoming pamphlet from Eyewear Publishing as part of their Aviator Series.

Additional information

GOR008522846
9780993505683
0993505686
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
Daniel Roy Connelly
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Carcanet Press Ltd
2017-07-03
104
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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