Watching the Fire Eater - Softcover

Robert Minhinnick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854110756 ISBN 13: 9781854110756

Publisher: Seren, 1995

Synopsis

From Copacabana to urban Yorkshire, from New Mexico to a Welsh funfair, from The Netherlands to the Clare coast, Robert Minhinnick's world is a shrinking one. Its cast of characters includes Rio beach beggars, Madison Avenue literati, saloon-bar poolsters and millionaire scrap merchants. These essays cover a variety of subjects: third world poverty and the internationalism of alcohol, rugby through the eyes of a vegetarian, nuclear power, sunbathing and a thanksgiving dinner for the demise of Margaret Thatcher. But at the core of this collection is a vivid series of attempts to strip away the exhausted mythologies of the writer's own country and the increasingly-packaged places he visits. Whether in the rainforest or the big match crowd, Minhinnick's language, acid, imagist, compassionate, celebrates the people he meets and, fleetingly, defines their lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seren
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1854110756
• ISBN 13: 9781854110756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128