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Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel
Thomas Cook
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Description for Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward. With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in ... Read more
'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward. With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784292423
SKU
V9781784292423
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Ref
99-1
About Thomas Cook
Thomas H. Cook is one of North America's most respected crime writers. He won an Edgar award for his novel The Chatham School Affair and has been shortlisted for the award six times, most recently with Red Leaves (Quercus 2006). He lives in California and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel
Cook can achieve a palpable, vivid sense of place, often in a few sentences, sometimes in a few words, while smoothly integrating the factual background data into his narrative
Bookbag
Cook writes with a tender precision . . . a stunning and revelatory book that will haunt you for months to come
Catholic Herald
Sometimes it ... Read more
Bookbag
Cook writes with a tender precision . . . a stunning and revelatory book that will haunt you for months to come
Catholic Herald
Sometimes it ... Read more