Time's Fool : A Tale in Verse

by Maxwell, Glyn

• ISBN13: 9780618257560
• ISBN10: 061825756X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-24
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Time's Fool tells the tale of Edmund Lea, a young man condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Edmund perpetually rides a phantom train -- except on Christmas Eve every seven years, when he is allowed to revisit his English hometown. He tries to break the spell by way of love, repentance, and death -- all in vain. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age but watching the world grow older. Infused with a dark humor and an almost unbearable nostalgia, Time's Fool is a brilliant achievement, "classic yet hip, stylized yet inventive" (Scotsman).

Author Biography

Glyn Maxwell is the author of nine books of poetry, including, most recently, The Sugar Mile. He is also a dramatist whose plays have been staged in New York, Edinburgh, and London. His latest play, Liberty, had its world premiere in the summer of 2008 at Shakespeare's Globe. Among other honors, he has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize. He was the poetry editor of the New Republic from 2001 to 2007. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Chapters (with those years chiefly considered)

The Chance in Hell  1 1984 and 1977

We Did It in Music  45 1984

My First Poem  89 The Train and 1970

The Once  133 1970 and the Train

Mallarea  177 1991

A Child""s Recorder  221 1998

Demundo  265 2005

Still to Want You Gone  309 2012

The Candle Palace  353 2019

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