21st-Century Yokel - Softcover

Tom Cox

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783527390 ISBN 13: 9781783527397

Publisher: Unbound, 2019

Synopsis

Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 21st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about walking, not quite a collection of humorous essays, but a bit of all five.

Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and Tom Cox's loud and excitable dad, this book is full of the folklore of several counties the ancient kind and the everyday variety as well as wild places, mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever.

Tom's writing treads a new path, one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it's bewitched by fresh air and big skies, intrepid in minor ways, haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors, restless and prone to a few detours, but it always reaches its destination in the end.

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Review:

'Like a British David Sedaris dedicated to a rural way of life, Tom Cox crafts funny and poignant stories out of observations and interactions - except his observations are of trees and his interactions are with squirrels' A.V. Club `A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew' Guardian '[An] entertaining walk through English folklore ... he keeps us with him for the whole journey' Observer

About the Author:

Tom Cox lives in Somerset. A one-time music journalist, he is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Good, the Bad and the Furry and the William Hill Sports Book longlisted Bring Me The Head of Sergio Garcia. His most recent book, 21st-Century Yokel, was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Unbound
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1783527390
• ISBN 13: 9781783527397
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416