In My Father's Den Body Art & Tattoo Eliot's modernist poem The Waste

Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land

a school gymnasium

threatening everything

a metaphorical pathway of transformation

“Saunders’s satiric vision of America is dark and demented

In My Father's Den Body Art & Tattoo Eliot's modernist poem The WasteWhen Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past a past that is as secret as his father's den in the old poison shed. Eventually the murderer is exposed, but not before a family has been split apart and old wounds