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The Art of Flight & the Raisin King
Fredrik Sjoberg
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Description for The Art of Flight & the Raisin King
Hardcover. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JJ; 3JM; BGT; WNCN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 40. Weight in Grams: 468.
Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine tree. That's where it may have started. Fredrik Sjoeberg continues his exploration of the pleasures and trials of those who spend their time tracing the smallest ... Read more
Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine tree. That's where it may have started. Fredrik Sjoeberg continues his exploration of the pleasures and trials of those who spend their time tracing the smallest ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Particular Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846147999
SKU
V9781846147999
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Ref
99-11
About Fredrik Sjoberg
Fredrik Sjoeberg collects hoverflies on the island of Runmaroe, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books, including The Fly Trap and The Raisin King, which form a trilogy with The Art of Flight.
Reviews for The Art of Flight & the Raisin King
Digressive, discursive and delightful.
Michael Kerr
Telegraph
A joy . . . Fredrik Sjoeberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy.
Nature
By his own admission Sjoeberg has a butterfly mind ; the effect of his narrative excursions amounts to a sort ... Read more
Michael Kerr
Telegraph
A joy . . . Fredrik Sjoeberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy.
Nature
By his own admission Sjoeberg has a butterfly mind ; the effect of his narrative excursions amounts to a sort ... Read more