The Foot of Clive
- 18 Jan 2024
- 9781838859589
- £9.99
- 192 pp
- 129×198mm
- 18 Jan 2024
- 9781838859596
- £7.99
- 192 pp
In a few words
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity, with an introduction by Benjamin Myers
In a few words
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity, with an introduction by Benjamin Myers
Berger produced some of the most extraordinary narrative prose by any British post-war writer, of astonishing diversity of form and subject matter. Pick up almost any text and you will find risk and surprise, and sentence after sentence energized by intellectual curiosity and an intimate and intense gaze on the world
Berger’s early novel puts on display all his painterly skill for description, his flair for metaphor and his powerful social conscience, through the stories and conversations of an ordinary hospital ward. If you admire Berger’s later books it’s a gem that will deepen your understanding of his work
Gavin Francis
Praise for John Berger:
John Berger seems to me peerless
Susan Sontag
John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. I do not say this lightly
Arundhati Roy
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the book
Introduced by Benjamin Myers
In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die before he can be hanged for his crime. In the closed, regimented society of the ward, his invisible presence fractures and rebuilds the way the other patients see the world. In the face of someone who has shattered all social covenants, life can no longer continue according to the rules.
Upturning conventions from morality to masculinity to class to prejudice, The Foot of Clive is a masterclass on humanity from the Booker Prize-winning author of G.
More about
the book
In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die before he can be hanged for his crime. In the closed, regimented society of the ward, his invisible presence fractures and rebuilds the way the other patients see the world. In the face of someone who has shattered all social covenants, life can no longer continue according to the rules.
Upturning conventions from morality to masculinity to class to prejudice, The Foot of Clive is a masterclass on humanity from the Booker Prize-winning author of G.
Praise for John Berger:
John Berger seems to me peerless
Susan Sontag
John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. I do not say this lightly
Arundhati Roy
[He] reminds us of what most contemporary writing would have us forget, which is that great writers are distinguished, ultimately, by the quality of their humanity
Geoff Dyer
There are a few authors that can change the way you look at the world through their writing and John Berger is one of them
Jarvis Cocker
Praise for John Berger:
[He] reminds us of what most contemporary writing would have us forget, which is that great writers are distinguished, ultimately, by the quality of their humanity
Geoff Dyer
There are a few authors that can change the way you look at the world through their writing and John Berger is one of them
Jarvis Cocker
Praise for A Fortunate Man:
In 1967 A Fortunate Man marked the most significant step forward in the collaboration of a writer and photographer since Let us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans and James Agee. Incredibly, it still does . . . A masterpiece
Geoff Dyer
It's one of my favourite books in the world, an ongoing inspiration as to how books should be written (and photography used)
Alain De Botton
John Berger
View profileJohn Berger was born in London in 1926. His seminal Ways of Seeing was one of the most influential books on art in the 20th century. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, King, and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. He lived and worked in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). In 2001, his collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published, and his Understanding a Photograph, edited by Geoff Dyer, was published in 2013. He died, aged 90, in January 2017.
John Berger
View profileJohn Berger was born in London in 1926. His seminal Ways of Seeing was one of the most influential books on art in the 20th century. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, King, and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. He lived and worked in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). In 2001, his collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published, and his Understanding a Photograph, edited by Geoff Dyer, was published in 2013. He died, aged 90, in January 2017.
