Seven-tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds |
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Author:
James Hamilton-Paterson
By Faber and Faber
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List Price: £9.99
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simply incredible writing, 2007-06-17
Seven-tenths is a bookshop's nightmare of a book. Where to place a book which describes maps, islands, love, loss, death and passion - in poet's language?
Taking our complex relationship with the sea as the starting point, this book is a philosophical meditation on the sea as physical birthplace of our race and the emotional abyss of our dreams. Moving between aspects of science, cartography, biography, poetry and philosophy, this book is, unsurprisingly, difficult to define or describe. It is simply outstanding. The language is hauntingly beautiful, even when describing exactly what happens to a human body during and after a burial at sea, as it sinks through miles of water.
James Hamilton-Paterson has an unflinching gaze coupled with a poet's exactitude. If my house were burning and I could save only one book from the multitudes, this would be it.
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780571229383
ISBN: 0571229387
Label: Faber and Faber
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Studio: Faber and Faber |
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