Author: Carr, Eamon
Number Of Pages: 64
Release Date: 30-09-2008
Details: As a sports columnist for a Dublin daily, journalist Eamon Carr watched the unfolding drama of the 2002 World Cup finals firsthand in Japan. Yet against the intense public spectacle of media attention following the controversial departure of Ireland captain Roy Keane, Carr followed his own private journey - a lifelong quest to visit the shrines and places of the famed poet Matsuo Basho, recognized master of haiku. In a volume of spare, elegant prose and his own haiku chroniclingimpressions and revelations of that journey, Carr explores the deepinterrelationships found within the seeming contrasts of ancient andmodern, nation and individual, crowd and solitude, loss and victory.Histories, memories and legends, as well as the wry personalobservations of the weary working traveller, merge to create thisprofoundly moving narrative on the universal nature of grace andredemption.
EAN: 9780955534669
Languages: English
Binding: Paperback
Item Note: Signed by the author and dedicated to the previous recipient.
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood