Swinging between the "hysterically quiet' of Australian towns and China's commercialisation of Mao, between allegorical voyages and densities of affection, Dennis Haskell's All the Time in the World provides explorations of the nature of truth and the meaning - if any - of human emotions. Language stands here in varying relations to the world, sometimes fragile, sometimes firm, in portraying a deep link between "the unsayable" and the ordinary.
Is love meaningless or utterly valuable? Are the meanings of human life discovered or made? Is identity rooted in place or flying about a globalised world? The book explores meanings underwritten by death, and pits a breadth of language against the values of a contemporary world dominated by the anonymity of money.
- ISBN10 6610950318
- ISBN13 9786610950317
- Publish Date 1 January 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Salt Publishing
- Format eBook
- Pages 112
- Language English