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Mrs Scrooge: A Christmas Tale
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CAROL ANN DUFFY is a poet, playwright, and freelance writer, and was made Britain's poet laureate in May 2009. She is the author of numerous volumes of poems, including Standing Female Nude, Feminine Gospels, Rapture, and Answering Back. She won the TS Eliot prize in 2005 (for Rapture), as well as the Dylan Thomas award, the Whitbread poetry prize, the Somerset Maugham award and the Forward prize. Duffy is a Professor of Contemporary Poetry as well as the Director of Creative Writing at the Manchester Metropolitan University. She lives in England.
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Britain’s new poet laureate is not only a Scot and a woman but a bisexual, which probably scandalizes many. A fine verse technician, arguably the wittiest laureate since the great satirist John Dryden (1631–1700), she is also highly politically and socially conscious. Her first official poem scored members of Parliament for their bloated expense accounts. Her first book as laureate features a heroine who is the epitome of the little old lady in tennis shoes, seen wherever radicals demonstrate for a cause. She is also the widow of the post–Christmas Carol Scrooge, who seems to have gone so far over to the Light Side, as it were, that he married Bob Cratchit’s mom. In the poem, smartly written around rather than in blank verse, with at least one rhymed couplet lurking within three unrhymed lines (watch for it!), and illustrated by Beth Adams as charmingly and naively as Ludwig Bemelmans’ Madeline stories, she, too, is visited by the Christmas ghosts and wakes to a happy ending—unreformed, of course. That’s why the ending’s happy. --Ray Olson
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 033051511X
- ISBN 13 9780330515115
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages48
- IllustratorPosy Simmonds
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Posy Simmonds (illustrator). Hardcover. A modern Christmas tale from the Poet Laureate, with illustrations by Posy SimmondsWith her husband, Ebenezer, now "doornail dead", the coldest Christmas Eve on record finds Mrs Scrooge outside the supermarket, protesting against consumerism and waste. Spoilsport! shout the passers-by as they load up their shopping carts with Christmas goodies. Just as Ebenezer did, Mrs Scrooge keeps to her frugal ways. But with the current state of the world, perhaps Mrs Scrooge has the right idea.That night, alone in her bed with Catchit the cat beside her, Mrs Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. As each in succession takes her by the hand and sweeps through the scenes of her life, Mrs Scrooge learns not only what the "Christmas Spirit" really means, but the nature of the real gifts we give and receive. A modern Christmas tale from the Poet Laureate, with illustrations by Posy Simmonds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780330515115
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