Eine Familie zu Weihnachten

Donald ist ein liebenswertes Schlitzohr. Er schlägt sich mit Betrügereien beim Billard durch - oder leiht sich Geld bei der Mafia. Genau das wird ihm jetzt zum Verhängnis. Denn Donald soll zehn Millionen Dollar erben, sofern er einen tadellosen Lebenswandel nachweisen kann.
Bei einer solchen Summe überlegt Donald nicht lange: Mitten im Weihnachtstrubel heuert er eine Schein-Familie an.

Vorwort
The first collection to date from Britain's best-loved poet -- on love.

Autorentext
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow. She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool, where she studied Philosophy. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, as well as the Lannan Award and the E. M. Forster Prize in America. Her collection, The World's Wife, was shortlisted for both the 1999 Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2000, Carol Ann was awarded a five-year fellowship by the National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), which was established in 1998 to support innovation and creative potential in the UK. In recent years she has collaborated in theatre and opera projects with Tim Supple and Melly Still. Rapture is her seventh major collection.

Zusammenfassung
The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief - as simply redemptive or destructive. Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity. Yet in showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives, Duffy has accessed a new level of directness that sacrifices nothing in the way of subtlety of expression. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers, and nowhere has Duffy more eloquently articulated her belief that poetry should speak for us all.

Inhalt

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