A Lesser Dependency Peter Benson

Name: A Lesser Dependency By Peter Benson
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A Lesser Dependency by Peter Benson

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A trenchant critique of modern civilization, A Lesser Dependency movingly describes how one family's tropical heaven became hell.

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A Lesser Dependency by Peter Benson

In 1971 the inhabitants of Diego Garcia, a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a place too small to find on a map and one of the last paradisical outposts of the Empire, were suddenly evicted from their homes to make way for a US military base. A trenchant critique of modern civilization, A Lesser Dependency movingly describes how one familys tropical heaven became hell.

A Lesser Dependency Reviews

This is polemic touched with poetry. Bensons gift is to capture in strong visual terms the earth-based intuition of those 'dropped in the sand and tuned to the rhythms of tiny island life. * The Sunday Times *
A powerful political novel which makes its case all the more forcefully for being so restrained. * The Guardian *
The lack of adornment lends the novel the directness of a folk-tale and sharpens its sting. * The Independent *

About Peter Benson

Born in 1956, Peter Benson was educated in Ramsgate, Canterbury and Exeter. His first novel, The Levels, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. This was followed by A Lesser Dependency, winner of the Encore award, The Other Occupant, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award, and three more novels: Odo's Hanging, Riptide and A Private Moon. He has also published short stories, screenplays and poetry, and his work has been adapted for TV and radio and translated into many languages. He lives in Exeter with his wife.

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GOR008425911

ISBN 13

9781846881923

ISBN 10

1846881927

Title

A Lesser Dependency by Peter Benson

Author

Peter Benson

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Alma Books Ltd

Year published

2012-04-12

Number of pages

144

Prizes

N/A

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