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Gavin Knight The Swordfish and the Star (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Swordfish and the Star : Life on Cornwall's Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast
- Publication Name
- The Swordfish and the Star
- Title
- The Swordfish and the Star
- Subtitle
- Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1784700991
- EAN
- 9781784700997
- ISBN
- 9781784700997
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Sociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Fishing, Customs & Traditions
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 04/05/2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He catches the stories of a whole community, but especially those still working this last frontier: the Cornish fishermen. These are the dreamers and fighters who every day prepare for battle with the vast grey Atlantic. Cornwall and its seas are brought to life, mixing drinking and drugs and sea spray, moonlit beaches and shattering storms, myth and urban myth. The result is an arresting tapestry of a place we thought we knew; the precarious reality of life in Cornwall today emerges from behind our idyllic holiday snaps and picture postcards. Even the quaint fishermen's pubs on the quay at Newlyn, including the Swordfish and its neighbour the Star, turn out to be places where squalls can blow up, and down again, in an instant. Based on immersive research and rich with the voices of a cast of remarkable characters, this is an eye-opening, dramatic, poignant account of life on Britain's most dangerous stretch of coast.
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Publisher
Penguin Random House
ISBN-10
1784700991
ISBN-13
9781784700997
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237504030
Product Key Features
Book Title
Swordfish and the Star : Life on Cornwall's Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Sociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Fishing, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
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Da670.C8
Reviews
"[Knight] is as adept with words as his hero Nutty Noah the Cadgwith ring-netter is with a shoal of pilchards . . . exhilarating." --Tom Fort, Literary Review, "An alternative perspective, telling the stories of the fishermen who work on this treacherous stretch of coast, tales gathered over two years of interviews, many conducted in the Swordfish and Star of the title." --Tom Robbins, Financial Times Books of the Year, "Knight has gone in search of old smells and danger and found them in spades. There are extraordinarily evocative stories here, of the mad bravado of scarred, de-fingered fishermen and the stoicism of their women . . . As a cross-section of west Cornish lives, a celebration of brave eccentricity and a prose illustration of the way those lives overlap and interrelate, The Swordfish and the Star takes some beating." --Patrick Gale, Guardian, An alternative perspective, telling the stories of the fishermen who work on this treacherous stretch of coast, tales gathered over two years of interviews, many conducted in the Swordfish and Star of the title, "Knight recounts fascinating detail, but also shows a novelist's skill in painting a vivid picture of real Cornwall and real Cornish people: Shane Meadows meets The Perfect Storm. " -- Esquire
Copyright Date
2017
Dewey Decimal
942.37
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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