The Navigation Log - Hardcover

Corrick, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743220161 ISBN 13: 9780743220163

Verlag: Scribner, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

A wonderful, inventive, first novel (Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, is a great fan) set primarily during WW2. A vivid, highly original, funny, bitter-sweet picture of a vanished Britain, beset by order and chaos. The Navigation Log opens in 1918 with the birth of identical twins, Tom and William Anderson. We follow in extraordinary vivid episodes their early life until the autumn of 1940, by which time Tom is a Spitfire pilot, dog fighting over the coast of Kent, while his brother William, a teacher, accompanies his anarchic school Liberty Hall in a lunatic trek across the bomb strewn Kent countryside below. The son of an aircraft engineer himself, Tom's airborne exploits are written with an exceptionally vivid intimacy, while the author's gift for humour is brought to hilarious realisation on the ground beneath. Peopled with deftly memorable characters (the Polish refugee fleeing Europe, the crazed naturist headmaster), the book observes an England that may have vanished, but still resides in many a heart.

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A graduate of the creative writing MA at UEA, Martin Corrick is a lecturer in literature and creative writing at the University of Southampton and was part-time lecturer in creative writing at UEA. He lives on a houseboat in Southampton.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Scribner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0743220161
• ISBN 13: 9780743220163
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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