An English Guide to Birdwatching
Silas and Ethel Woodlock retire to spend their twilight years by thesea, only to find themselves traumatised by herring gulls. Londonjournalist Stephen Osmer writes a provocative essay about twopeople called Nicholas Royle, one a novelist, the other a literarycritic. Whether Royle, the literary critic, is having an affair withthe beautiful Lily Lynch, and has stolen and published SilasWoodlock's short story, 'Gulls', becomes a race to the death forat least one of the authors.Playfully commenting on the main story are 17 'Hides': primarilyabout birds, ornithology and films (including Hitchcock's), theseshort texts give us a different view of t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-908434-95-1
- EAN: 9781908434951
- Produktnummer: 22852198
- Verlag: Myriad Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'865 KB
Über den Autor
NICHOLAS ROYLE lives in Seafordand is Professor of English at theUniversity of Sussex.He is the author of the highlyacclaimed novel, Quilt ('delightfullyeccentric humour and impressivelinguistic experimentalism' Observer)as well as seminal books onliterature, including The Uncannyand, most recently, Veering.His non-fiction, like his fiction, isdistinguished by playful languageand suggests a new way of seeingthe relationship between creativeand critical writing.
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