And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Category: Books,Literature & Fiction,History & Criticism
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos Details
From the Back Cover In an extraordinary distillation of his gifts as a novelist, poet, art critic, and social historian, John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance or prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. Read more About the Author John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017. Read more
Reviews
A beautiful, prayer-like read that explores a variety of themes from home to the visual with love of form and language being the centre of it. Poems and essays are interwoven, leaving the reader with a heightened awareness and a profound quietness that will linger long after the book has been read. Highly recommended.
