The Man in the White Suit

by Drake, Nick

• ISBN13: 9781852244880
• ISBN10: 1852244887
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Here is an exiled poet in an English seaside asylum, A winter night spent in the spooky penthouse suite of Ceausescu's vanished daughter, and a scientist trying to calculate the heart's square root. Londoner Nick Drake's debut collection portrays and

Table of Contents

The Hunt by Night	11	(12)
Cigarettes for Mr Blatny	12	(1)
The Disappearing City	13	(1)
To the Partisan Folk Dance Ensemble of Czechoslovakia	14	(2)
Eureka	16	(1)
Heaven	17	(1)
The Story Box	18	(2)
Static	20	(1)
Small Hours	21	(1)
Ceausescu's Daughter's Bedroom	22	(2)
Mystery Train	24	(1)
The Juke Box	25	(1)
The Man in the White Suit	26	(2)
Icons	28	(2)
Chocolate and Salt	30	(1)
The General at the Bus Stop	31	(1)
Last Train	32	(1)
North	33	(1)
The Very Rich Hours	34	(2)
Art and Mystery	36	(2)
The Cure	38	(1)
Dunes	39	(1)
Ice Cream	40	(1)
The Single Shoes of Spain	41	(1)
Ausonius and Paulinus	42	(2)
Dr Johnson's Bicycle	44	(2)
Six Studies of Anna Vondracek	46	(2)
The Space Race	48	(2)
In Memory of Vincent Cox	50	(4)
The Angel of History	54	(2)
The Ghost Train	56	(1)
A Cookham Sunday	57	(2)
The Foley Artist	59	(4)
Notes	63