Ebook {Epub PDF} King: A Street Story by John Berger

King: A Street Story (Vintage International) - Kindle edition by Berger, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading King: A Street Story (Vintage International)/5(14).  · Writers Read: King: A Street Story by John Berger. The blurb for the paperback printing of King reveals the title character, our narrator, is canine. But John Berger blurs species lines in this poignant tale of twenty-four hours in the life of the marginalized inhabitants of a French homeless camp. With Berger’s spare, lyric prose, King is granted first person point of view. With the poetic acuity that renders his work timeless, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger brings us a hour chronicle of homelessness. Beside a highway, in a wasteland furnished with smashed trucks and broken washing machines, lives a vagrant community of once-hopeful individuals, now abandoned by the twentieth bltadwin.ru by: 6.

King: A Street Story by John Berger. Pantheon. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. John Peter Berger (5 November - 2 January ) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university bltadwin.ru lived in France for over fifty years. John Berger has always shown an admirable social conscience, and much of his fiction serves as a medium for this specific message of his. On occasion he has been successful. On occasion he fails. The ponderous and sincere King, though admirable in some ways, does ultimately fall short.

King: A Street Story by John Berger. Pantheon. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The story of a group of people that are basically homeless, over a hundred who homestead in a dump off a motorway, in Saint Valéry, King is meant to be a thought-provoking portrait of the dispossessed and in many respects dehumanized. Ergo King the canine. Editions for King: A Street Story: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), X (Paperback published in.