In Arcadia
Title | In Arcadia |
Year for Search | 2002 |
Authors | Okri, Ben(b. 1959) |
Date Published | 2002 |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | Male author, Nigerian author, UK author |
Annotation | The search for real and imagined arcadias with much discussion of the nature of arcadia and utopia from the perspective of contemporary dystopian times. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. London: Phoenix, 2003. |
Holding Institutions | NLS, O |
Author Note | The author (b. 1959) was born in Nigeria, lived and attended school in England from childhood to early teens, lived in Nigeria from then to 1978, when he returned to England, where he lives. He won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991 for The Famished Road. |
Full Text | 2002 Okri, Ben (b. 1959). In Arcadia. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Rpt. London: Phoenix, 2003. NLS, O The search for real and imagined arcadias with much discussion of the nature of arcadia and utopia from the perspective of contemporary dystopian times. The author was born in Nigeria, lived and attended school in England from childhood to early teens, lived in Nigeria from then to 1978, when he returned to England, where he lives. He won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991 for The Famished Road. |