Book description
As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020
Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around…
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This is Paul Theroux’s travels around the coast of Britain in the 1980s.
It’s a true artist’s journey – he writes about whatever interests him, intrigues him, astonishes him, amuses him, and often what depresses him, from ugly holiday camps to grotesquely flirty hotel landladies, to train strikes. It’s not a pretty travelogue, more a close observation of decay and ruin, with the Falklands War glimpsed through news headlines, adding to the overall sense of an unstoppable cosmic engine of change and loss.
His prose is honest, graceful, and vivid, with a great ear for character and dialogue. All in…
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