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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"""

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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. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner, he has performed many voice-overs and narrated numerous audiobooks, including the international bestseller The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud by Julia Navarro, The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield, and The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002. James was born in York, England, and is now based in New York City.

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