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Indlæser... To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surfaceaf Olivia Laing
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is another book I recall reading and enjoying, maybe five years ago, without being able to remember its details. ( ) There are many stories in the book, layered and interwoven, but all centred around the River Ouse that runs from Slaugham to Newhaven through the Sussex Weald. One summer Liang decides to walk the length of it to discover the history, the people that inhabit it, the wildlife and most importantly the sense of place. This is the river where the great writer Virginia Woolf took her own life in 1941. Liang writes about her life and her troubled health and how she had been suffering from mental health problems for a number of years. Living nearby had offered a glimmer of hope that she might recover, but sadly it was not to be. There is a lot of history in this part of England, and it has been occupied for millennia. It has played its part in pivotal parts of English history too, with a battle taking place between Simon de Montfort and the royal supporters. Some of these are still commemorated today in local festivals. In her walk she also used the time and the progress of the river to lament the breakdown of her relationship with a guy called Matthew. It does not dominate the book, but adds a poignant undertone as she considers what might have been. Where this book soars though is the eloquent descriptions of the landscape and the wildlife that she sees and experiences on her walk. It is nature writing at its finest. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked. Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love. No library descriptions found. |
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