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Synopsis
'Coasting is half travel book, half autobiography, half novel (never mind the arithmetic), marvellously written and superbly constructed. The author's intention was surely to sail through time and place, to chart the coastline of his own past, to take soundings of his future, while bobbing around the edges of Britain...The result is a triumph, and should be read for its evocation of childhood and awkward adolescence, its portrayal of his father, its descriptions of places and sunsets, of incidents and accidents. In short a writer's view of England and the English, including himself. It's the sort of book you put among your favourite books you keep on your desk or table, the ones you pick up over and over again to re-read with undiminished pleasure, the sort you wish you'd written yourself' Beryl Bainbridge, Spectator
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Review
A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self. "The New York Times Book Review"
Coasting is a glorious book, written with energy, wit and a melancholy lyricism . . . There's something wonderful on every page of this book. "The Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer
" 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. Beryl Bainbridge, "The Spectator"
Raban is . . . one of our most gifted observers. "Newsday""
"A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self." --The New York Times Book Review
Book Description
'Sharp...funy...a marvellous attempt to discover the meaning of home' Ian Jack, Observer
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0330299778
- ISBN 13 9780330299770
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages305
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