{"product_id":"9781925336146","title":"Letter to Pessoa","description":"Author: Michelle Cahill\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925336146\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Line by line, Cahill's writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is\u0026amp;nbsp;evident, her ambition impressive.\" - Hilary Mantel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetter to Pessoa\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of short stories by award-winning Goan-Australian poet Michelle Cahill. It is an imaginative tour de force, portraying the\u0026amp;nbsp;experiences of a whole range of characters, including a scientist, a cat and a young\u0026amp;nbsp;Indian female version of Joseph Conrad, in settings across the world, from Barcelona\u0026amp;nbsp;to Capetown, Boston to Chiang Mai, Kathmandu to Krakw. Like the poet\u0026amp;nbsp;Fernando Pessoa, who gives the collection its title, and who created as many as\u0026amp;nbsp;seventy versions of himself, Cahill displays a remarkable inventiveness, making distant\u0026amp;nbsp;landscapes and situations come alive, in compelling detail, as they express the fear and\u0026amp;nbsp;longing, obsession and outrage, of the people caught up in them. Displaying its\u0026amp;nbsp;awareness of the power of writing to create realities, the collection also includes a\u0026amp;nbsp;number of fictions in letter form, to Jacques Derrida, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet and\u0026amp;nbsp;Margaret Atwood  and to JM Coetzee, from his character Melanie Isaacs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867079594142,"sku":"ADS-9781925336146","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925336146.jpg?v=1779429472","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925336146","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}