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A Twitch Upon the Thread
Writers on Fishing
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The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. Read it and be hooked. Includes contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Oto Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell and dozens more.
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A poignant and surprising collection of essays on fishing, in which the sport becomes a way to meditate on love, grief, faith, and obsession, with contributions spanning medieval times to the present.
The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the reader from riverbank to open ocean, from England to New Zealand, from the shore to the depths. Read it and be hooked. Included are contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, and dozens more.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781912559138
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 02 May 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 230g
Pages: 196
About the Author
Jon Dayis a writer, critic, cyclist, and fisherman. He teaches English at King's College London, and has written essays and reviews for theLondon Review of Books,theTimes Literary Supplementand many others. He is a regular book critic for theGuardianand theFinancial Times, and writes about art forApollo. His first book,Cyclogeography, was published by Notting Hill Editions in 2015.Homingwas published by John Murray in 2019. He was a 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction judge.
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