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Fredy Neptune is a verse novel, a classic of Australian writing that has been praised around the world. This stylish new edition contains a new afterword by Les Murray, 'How Fredy and I wrote Fredy Neptune'.Fredy Neptune involves the journeys of a man born on the north coast of New South Wales, a gentle, curious man of enormous physical strength who loses his ability to feel.
10 gen 2000 · This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age.Told in a blue-collar English that regains freshness by eschewing the mind-set of literary language, Fredy's picaresque life-as, perhaps, the only Nordic Superman ever-is deep-dyed in layers of irony and attains a mind-inverting resolution.
Fredy Neptune: A Novel In Verse - Ebook written by Les Murray. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Fredy Neptune: A Novel In Verse.
Fredy Neptune opens with an epigraph from the Armenian poet Siamanto, eye-witness to massacre.12 The naked women are ‘anointed’ with kerosene and torched: And there was dancing. The charred bodies rolled.
10 gen 2000 · "Highly charged in ideas as in language, Fredy Neptune may jump from sin to salvation and from Suez to Sydney in a single stanza, but it is no novelty act. Neither archer nor centaur, it is a novel. And a ripping good yarn." --Los Angeles Times Murray's way with language and imagery is thrilling. . . .
10 gen 2000 · Fredy Neptune is somewhere between the two. The regular 8 line stanzas give a sense of structure, the pounding metrical stresses drive home the sense of poetry, the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't rhyming structures and alliterations provide odd satisfactions of their own, that remind you occassionally that you are reading poetry, without ever getting precious, distracting or boring.
- Les Murray
It is from this Australian underbelly that ''Fredy Neptune'' examines the shabby, scrappy, unjust and seething mess that was world history from World War I until a decade after World War II. ''Fredy Neptune'' is a five-book verse narrative in eight-line stanzas.
