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Overview"From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of ""exploded essays"" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, from the Arctic at midwinter to a shingle spit in Norfolk at midsummer, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before or what helps us to see more clearly or persuades us to see what's not there. Art, science, vision and memory inform one another in this original and illuminating work.'Greenlaw's prose has a sharp honesty and she wields her erudition lightly.' Sunday Times" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lavinia GreenlawPublisher: Faber & Faber Imprint: Faber & Faber Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.482kg ISBN: 9780571355631ISBN 10: 0571355633 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 04 January 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationLavinia Greenlaw has published three novels and six collections of poetry. Her works of non-fiction include Some Answers Without Questions, The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. Her writing has appeared in frieze, the London Review of Books and the New Yorker, among other publications. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |