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The paperback. Pub Date: 2006 02 of Pages: 208 in Publisher: VINTAGE 'When I awoke the tongue of the tide was lapping at my feet and the sea had claimed my belongings The sand on which the I lay was so stiff there was no the trace of my footprints across it. An observer viewing me from above might have imagined I had been washed upon the shore from a shipwreck. Another would perhaps have construed that I had been cast away by choice. If I had encountered my inert body I would have made the former assumption although the latter is much closer to the truth ... 'With these words. the narrator of A Town by the Sea sets off towards a coastal town which lies some distance to the east of him. But he also embarks on a journey into his past. Along the way he encounters ghosts. he climbs a tall tower and is marooned in the clouds. he meets a ruffian and a dandy. he is attacked and tie...
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"A seriously talented writer" (Independent)
"This is a quiet, contemplative novel which politely invites the reader to accompany it on its journey. It is an invitation well worth accepting" (Time Out)
"A highly original and absorbing work...The product of a prodigious imagination" (Literary Review)
"Paling can recreate the real world as convincingly as any of his peers, but the main strength of A Town By the Sea is the very anonymity of the setting, the unrevealed identity of the narrator, and the sense of the novel as fable" (Independent)
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"This is a quiet, contemplative novel which politely invites the reader to accompany it on its journey. It is an invitation well worth accepting" (Time Out)
"A highly original and absorbing work...The product of a prodigious imagination" (Literary Review)
"Paling can recreate the real world as convincingly as any of his peers, but the main strength of A Town By the Sea is the very anonymity of the setting, the unrevealed identity of the narrator, and the sense of the novel as fable" (Independent)
A beautifully written new novel by 'a seriously talented writer' Independent
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0099477661
- ISBN 13 9780099477662
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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