Adam Thorpe Quotes

Adam Thorpe is a British poet and novelist whose works also include short stories, translations, radio dramas and documentaries. He is a frequent contributor of reviews and articles to various newspapers, journals and magazines, including the Guardian, the Poetry Review and the Times Literary Supplement. Wikipedia

✵ 5. December 1956

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Famous Adam Thorpe Quotes

“Did you not think of burying them?" Walter snorted in a quite ordinary way.”

Adam Thorpe

Nineteen Twenty-One (2001)

“Walking about? With a hole in his forehead full of maggots" "Aye. It were like a damn fisherman's tub.”

Adam Thorpe

Joseph and Walter
Nineteen Twenty-One (2001)

“Oh Walter en't been the same man, you know…slow, very slow since he came back.”

Adam Thorpe

Nineteen Twenty-One (2001)

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