Philip Hoare

Broschiertes Buch

RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

Beschreibung

Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bonesâ Robert Macfarlane From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.

Autor

Philip Hoare is the author of ten works of non-fiction. His Leviathan won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and the New York Times praised his last book, Albert & the Whale, as the result of 'the forceful weather system that is Hoare's imagination'. Writing in the Observer, Laura Cumming called his writing 'the animating magic that brings people of the past directly into our present and unleashes spectacular visions along the way'. He lives in Southampton, on the south coast of England, and swims every day in the sea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fourth Estate / HarperCollins UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 104318
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9780008133702
• ISBN-10: 0008133700
• Artikelnr.: 50611556

Rezensionen

'Rarely have I read a book that felt as if it were speaking so directly, so confidentially to me. RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR is about books and about swimming, but most of all it does what all great books do: makes you feel that it's a private conversation between you and the author. I finished it with an obscure feeling of privilege, to have been granted such access to Hoare's most secret, intimate self ... RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR is a masterpiece' Alex Preston, Observer

'A rich and strange combination of memoir, travelogue and literary biography ... RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR contains much of wonder in words strewn across its pages like treasures revealed on the sand by a retreating tide' Caspar Henderson, Financial Times

'This is

an exquisite read, stuffed with dark myths and eerie legends, nourished by the author's sublime gift for poetic description' Michael Simkins, Mail on Sunday

'Hoare conveys a redemptive sense of the wide, continuous and beautiful world, in a remarkable book that sometimes feels rather loosely fitted together, but is always rich and strange' Guardian

'His idiosyncratic tales of mariners, adventurers and the odd dilettante rise almost to the level of poetry ... he evokes the sense of majesty that a seascape can inspire in us' Clive Davis, The Times

'Wonderful...This beautifully written book is a delight'BBC Radio 4

The themes and preoccupations are familiar from Hoare's previous writing ... but their revisiting here reveals a landscape as exhilarating different as that of the foreshore from one tide to the next' Jane Shilling, Evening Standard

'Hoare writes with a beautiful and liquid assurance, luxuriantly at home in this half-modernist, half-conventional medium and capable of astonishingly realised visions of floating moments and sea encounters' Adam Nicholson, Spectator

'A swirling, poetic reverie' Esquire

'He is poetic and precise...a rich portrait of the sea as an imaginative landscape' TLS

'Written with a poetic beauty' i newspaper