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Water and Sky: Voices From the Riverside
Neil Sentance
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Description for Water and Sky: Voices From the Riverside
Hardcover. Neil Sentance revisits his native Lincolnshire riverlands and fields, farms and market towns, to explore the history of his family and the landscape which shaped them. Illustrator(s): Gibbs, Jonathan. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAL; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
Neil Sentance revisits his native Lincolnshire riverlands and fields, farms and market towns, to explore the history of his family and the landscape which shaped them. But this is not a lament for a lost world. Peopled by characters forgotten by history, it celebrates the countryside with a rare combination of lyricism and muddy realism. Water and Sky collects together Neil Sentance's 'Scenes from the Waterside', a sequence of essays which first appeared on the Caught by the River website between 2010 and 2013. Water and Sky is an original and haunting blend of nature writing, memoir and historical fiction. ... Read more
Neil Sentance revisits his native Lincolnshire riverlands and fields, farms and market towns, to explore the history of his family and the landscape which shaped them. But this is not a lament for a lost world. Peopled by characters forgotten by history, it celebrates the countryside with a rare combination of lyricism and muddy realism. Water and Sky collects together Neil Sentance's 'Scenes from the Waterside', a sequence of essays which first appeared on the Caught by the River website between 2010 and 2013. Water and Sky is an original and haunting blend of nature writing, memoir and historical fiction. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little Toller
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908213235
SKU
V9781908213235
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Ref
99-15
About Neil Sentance
Neil Sentance was born in Lincolnshire in 1969. He now lives in west Dorset with his wife and two children. A regular contributor to Caught by the River, Water and Sky is his first book.
Reviews for Water and Sky: Voices From the Riverside
A marvellous and haunting sequence ... It is wonderful to read such experiment of voice, tone and vision. ROBERT MACFARLANE The lyricism of Sentance's scenes of rural life is at times reminiscent of Ronald Blythe; the figures that step into these vignettes are etched with the same respectful and gritty elegance, their voices are quiet, tough and ... Read more