A Time For New Dreams

Ben Okri

A Time For New Dreams
RRP: £10.99 - Trade Paperback
Publication date: 07/04/2011
EAN: 9781846042683
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Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time for New Dreams he breaks new ground in an unusual collection of linked essays, which address such diverse themes as childhood, self-censorship, the role of beauty, the importance of education and the real significance of the recent economic meltdown.

Proving that 'true literature tears up the script' of how we see ourselves, A Time for New Dreams is provocative and thought-provoking. In an intriguing marriage of style and content, the concise but perfectly formed essays in this collection push the parameters of writing whilst asking profound questions about who we are and the future that awaits us.
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[Okri] has a diction which glides superbly.His ear is pitch perfect
- Scotsman

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