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Elle: A Verse Novel

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by Robert Sheppard
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert SheppardPublish date:11/30/2025Pages:100
Language:EnglishPublisher:Broken Sleep BooksISBN-13:9781917617475ISBN-10:191761747XUPC:9781917617475Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2403Product ID:SC2YG0YSJV

Elle: A Verse Novel by Robert Sheppard is a fierce, densely layered détournement, refashioning Joseph Kessel's Belle de Jour through splices, warpings, and an unnerving overlay of 1960s Brighton scandal onto a surrealist template. Blending procedural method with pulp volatility, Sheppard mines and retools the idioms of violence, sex, media, and myth, threading the ghosts of Buñuel, Jeff Keen, and the tabloid unconscious into a shattered, many-voiced delirium. The book is both critique and enactment of representation: a work pursued by its maker, stalked by its forms, and shadowed by Christine. Elle is a hauntological lyric, a summoning that won't let the archive lie still.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Broken Sleep BooksISBN-13:9781917617475ISBN-10:191761747XUPC:9781917617475Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2403Product ID:SC2YG0YSJV
Sheppard, Robert: - Robert Sheppard has published numerous volumes of prose and poetry, creative and critical, fiction and non-fiction, has been widely anthologised and published in dozens of magazines and journals, over 50 years. Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University, he lives in Liverpool, though he was born on the South Coast, where, before university in Norwich, his adolescent surrealism was first nurtured, and he was introduced to the radical British poetry of the day, to which he remains committed.
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