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Love,Madness,Fishing
Dexter Petley
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Description for Love,Madness,Fishing
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Soon after Dexter Petley began writing down his observations of people on the borders of rural Kent and Sussex during the 1960s and 1970s, he realised that his stories were acquiring a broader significance. Between the riverbank where he taught himself to fish and the secondary modern where gardening and smallholding were on the curriculum, he witnessed the lives of a demobbed generation who were still adjusting to post-war Britain, surviving hand-to-mouth, eking out a living mending cars, recycling scrap metal or hop-picking. This fractured landscape, carried like an heirloom since boyhood, has allowed Petley to untangle the fragments of ... Read more
Soon after Dexter Petley began writing down his observations of people on the borders of rural Kent and Sussex during the 1960s and 1970s, he realised that his stories were acquiring a broader significance. Between the riverbank where he taught himself to fish and the secondary modern where gardening and smallholding were on the curriculum, he witnessed the lives of a demobbed generation who were still adjusting to post-war Britain, surviving hand-to-mouth, eking out a living mending cars, recycling scrap metal or hop-picking. This fractured landscape, carried like an heirloom since boyhood, has allowed Petley to untangle the fragments of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little Toller Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908213440
SKU
V9781908213440
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About Dexter Petley
Dexter Petley was born in the Weald, Kent, in 1955. He is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Little Nineveh, Joyride and White Lies, which was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. He is also a translator and angler of international renown. Since leaving Britain in 1995 he has lived wild all over France, in sheds, barns, ... Read more
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