Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador (Vintage Departures) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Gimlette, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400078539 ISBN 13: 9781400078530

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006

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Book by Gimlette John

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"Newfoundlers themselves must be God's gift to travel writers. In John Gimlette's frothy treatment, the island is absolutely teeming with impossibly colorful characters spouting nonstop entertainment . . . Gimlette is laugh-out-loud funny." -The New York Times Book Review

"John Gimlette is attracted to bizarre places and writes about them with often withering irony [and] surrealist panache. . . . An absurd and entertaining book." -National Geographic

"Oddly compelling. . . . The reward is the feast of stories gathered from taverns and ferry rides and old journals: drownings, battles with 'Esquimaux' greenhorns challenging an unforgiving wilderness, folks who still use dogsleds because in tough times, 'You can't eat a snowmobile.'" -The Washington Post

"Terrific stuff. . . . A dazzlingly multifaceted portrait of the region. . . . A hugely entertaining book in which the interest never flags. . . . As a descriptive writer, a master of the telling observation and the well-chosen epithet, [Gimlette] is in the highest class." -The Daily Telegraph

Reseña del editor

The author of At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig journeys through the harsh, desolate, and dramatic landscapes of the Canadian region of Newfoundland and Labrador, examining the area's unique history, culture, language, and the lives of the people living on the extreme edge of the Americas. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400078539
• ISBN 13: 9781400078530
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400