Walking Away [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Armitage, Simon

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ISBN 10: 0571298354 ISBN 13: 9780571298358

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2015

Riassunto

As heard on BBC Radio 4, the brilliant sequel to Simon Armitage's acclaimed bestseller Walking Home - the story of his travels on Britain's South West coast. Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In Walking Away Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finsh. From the surreal pleasuredome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.

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Recensione:

Walking Away is very funny, very enjoyable and fuelled by Armitage's own down-to-earth poetic genius. (Guardian)

Like its predecessor, Walking Away is eminently readable and both warm and self-deprecating in its humour ... a witty, engaging and at times screamingly funny travelogue. (Huston Gilmore Sunday Express)

[Armitage's] evocations of the spare bedrooms he stays in are as telling as his descriptions of landscape ... [he] feels like your poetic best mate. (Geoff Nicholson Literary Review)

Very entertaining ... The self-deprecation with which Armitage recounts these events is a big part of the book's charm. (Mark Mason Spectator)

As before, Armitage has a brilliant eye for detail ... He is wittily self-deprecating, much like a hipper Alan Bennett ... "I won't be doing any more long walks," he insists, but this charming, if footsore troubadour is sure to find new poetic adventures. (Suzi Feay Independent on Sunday)

Fans of Armitage will enjoy slotting back into the fleecy role of walking companion ... [he is] great at spotting the habits and habitats that are peculiarly British. (Helen Davies Sunday Times)

What an excellent read Walking Away has been, an astute and intuitive look at the landscape with the quirks of the English understood, spotted and mixed in but in the best possible way, by someone who clearly sees himself as belonging...as one of them ... [Armitage] has an invaluable and very special eye. (DoveGreyReader)

Whether he's describing the characters, the land, the sea or his mood and physical condition, it's hard not to engage with a writer who wears his heart on his sleeve and who isn't afraid to puncture the overall mellow vibe with the occasional dark thought and reveal doubts about the validity of the entire enterprise. (Footless Crow)

Descrizione del libro:

The sequel to Armitage's top ten bestselling travel book Walking Home.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571298354
• ISBN 13: 9780571298358
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288