Description: Further DetailsTitle: Love, Madness, FishingCondition: NewEAN: 9781908213440ISBN: 9781908213440Publisher: Little Toller BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/07/2016Item Height: 226mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 408gAuthor: Dexter PetleyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A MemoirISBN-10: 1908213442Description: Soon after Dexter Petley began writing down his observations of people on the borders of rural Kent and Sussex during the 1960s and 1970s, he realised that his stories were acquiring a broader significance. Between the riverbank where he taught himself to fish and the secondary modern where gardening and smallholding were on the curriculum, he witnessed the lives of a demobbed generation who were still adjusting to post-war Britain, surviving hand-to-mouth, eking out a living mending cars, recycling scrap metal or hop-picking. This fractured landscape, carried like an heirloom since boyhood, has allowed Petley to untangle the fragments of his own life, from the loss of his first love to the nomadic existence he has been living ever since, in London, Africa and France. Here is an unsentimental memoir of exceptional quality. Reminiscent of Laurie Lee and H.E. Bates, each story is peopled by vivid, earthy characters who gravitate around the lakes and ponds and rivers that have flowed through Dexter Petley's life.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Sports & HobbiesRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Love, Madness, Fishing
Title: Love, Madness, Fishing
EAN: 9781908213440
ISBN: 9781908213440
Release Date: 04/07/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: A Memoir
ISBN-10: 1908213442
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Love Madness Fishing
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Dovecote Press, T.H.E.
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Fishing, Europe / Great Britain
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Author: Dexter Petley
Item Length: 6 in
Item Width: 9.1 in
Format: Hardcover
