{"product_id":"fredy-neptune-a-novel-in-verse-paperback","title":"Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLes a. Murray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI never learned the old top ropes, \u003cbr\u003eI was always in steam. \u003cbr\u003eLess capstan, less climbing, \u003cbr\u003emore re-stowing cargo. \u003cbr\u003eWhich could be hard and slow\u003cbr\u003eas farming- but to say \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy this is Valparaiso! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOr: I'm in Singapore and know my way about\u003cbr\u003etakes a long time to get stale\u003cbr\u003e.-from Book I, The Middle Sea \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen German-Australian sailor Friedrich Fredy Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age.Told in a blue-collar English that regains freshness by eschewing the mind-set of literary language, Fredy's picaresque life-as, perhaps, the only Nordic Superman ever-is deep-dyed in layers of irony and attains a mind-inverting resolution.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLes Murray (1938-2019)\u003c\/b\u003e was a widely acclaimed poet, recognized by the National Trust of Australia as one of the nation's treasures in 2012. He received the T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English in 1996 for \u003ci\u003eSubhuman Redneck Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and was also awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry presented by Queen Elizabeth II. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurray also served as poetry editor for the conservative Australian journal Quadrant from 1990-2018. His other books include \u003ci\u003eDog Fox Field, Translations from the Natural World, Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse, Learning Human: Selected Poems, Conscious and Verbal, Poems the Size of Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Past\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.02 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726292021555,"sku":"9780374526764","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dEdQbWxjQXFwM0ttMVpaZ09IQkVkdz09.webp?v=1763733585","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/fredy-neptune-a-novel-in-verse-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}