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The Grammar Architect

2005

In Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), a man is hired to restore an old church tower and falls for a woman with a disapproving father. What's worse, she also falls for the man's best friend, and the ensuing love triangle inevitably leads to her death. Enter the literary cover! Like its musical counterpart, Eaton begins with Hardy's basics and transforms it into something entirely his own. But in Eaton's version, the man begins to believe he can erect a new tower made entirely of words. And the woman's father — a personified version of the tragedy that hangs over all Hardy novels — develops a taste for destruction and decides to stick it to everyone. But in Eaton's magical realist version, akin to Gabriel García Márquez's work, it is the poet Burke who must try to make sense of it all, in hopes of somehow finding an explanation for his own confused life. But when the detective is more concerned with metaphorical implications than any sort of quantitative reality, does his version of the events trap them in Hardy's melodramatic consequences forever?
fiction poets separation (psychology) triangles (interpersonal relations) elopement

Authors

Chris Eaton

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
C813/.6
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
A cover of Thomas Hardy's A pair of blue eyes"--Cover Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
1897178050 9781554830480
LCCN
PR9199.4.E24
LCCN Item number
G73 2005eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (285 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00234033 (OCoLC)872601350 (CaOOCEL)465441
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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