Author: | John Berger | ISBN: | 9780307794338 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | July 13, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
Author: | John Berger |
ISBN: | 9780307794338 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication: | July 13, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage |
Language: | English |
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes of life, these twenty-nine "photocopies" teach us about lying and self-invention, dignity and tenderness, charity and courage. Overflowing with the sights, sounds, and smells of life, Photocopies is a masterpiece from one of the most important chroniclers of our time.
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes of life, these twenty-nine "photocopies" teach us about lying and self-invention, dignity and tenderness, charity and courage. Overflowing with the sights, sounds, and smells of life, Photocopies is a masterpiece from one of the most important chroniclers of our time.