Overview
Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he's sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage--which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982--into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. Whether he's chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read Coasting for his precise naturalistic descriptions or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.
Full Product Details
Author: Jonathan Raban ,
James Langton
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798200956951
Publication Date: 05 July 2022
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"Coasting is a glorious book, written with energy, wit, and a melancholy lyricism...There's something wonderful on every page of this book. -- ""Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer"" A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self. -- ""New York Times Book Review"" Marvelously written and superbly constructed...The sort of book you put among those favorite books you keep on your desk or table...The sort you wish you had written yourself. -- ""The Spectator"" Raban is...one of our most gifted observers. -- ""Newsday"""
Coasting is a glorious book, written with energy, wit, and a melancholy lyricism...There's something wonderful on every page of this book. -- Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self. -- New York Times Book Review Marvelously written and superbly constructed...The sort of book you put among those favorite books you keep on your desk or table...The sort you wish you had written yourself. -- The Spectator Raban is...one of our most gifted observers. -- Newsday
Author Information
Jonathan Raban is the author of Soft City, Arabia, Old Glory, Foreign Land, For Love and Money, Coasting, and Hunting Mr. Heartbreak. He won the W. H. Heinemann Award for Literature in 1982 and the Thomas Cook Award in 1981 and 1991. He has also edited the Oxford Book of the Sea. He lives in Seattle. James Langton trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. James was born in York, England and now lives in New York City.
