Gabriel Fielding (1916–1986)
Autore di The Birthday King
Opere di Gabriel Fielding
XXVIII poems 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1916-03-25
- Data di morte
- 1986-11-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di morte
- Bellevue, Washington, USA
- Istruzione
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Attività lavorative
- soldier (WWII, Royal Ambulance Medical Corps)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 77
- Popolarità
- #231,246
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 15
Blaydon struggles in various schools and with a crammer to prepare for medical studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Fielding is at his best depicting the torture the young feel when adults are being unfair to them; he captures the powerlessness that comes from lack of authority and inability to articulate the way one is being wronged. As he awaits the result of his latest exam—the equivalent of A-levels—Blaydon is ready to commit suicide when he runs into Greenbloom again, and Greenbloom tells him that while he might have done away with himself shortly after Victoria’s murder, now he has a reason for living just because he is so unhappy. “You have suffered…by a supreme attachment that detachment which it is the object of all developed men to achieve,” says Greenbloom, who predicts that Blaydon will become a writer. By another lake Blaydon meets an Irish girl who reminds him of Victoria, and he begins to see the possibility of a future.… (altro)