An English Guide to Birdwatching
maj 2017 · Myriad Editions
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Silas and Ethel Woodlock retire to spend their twilight years by the sea, only to find themselves traumatised by herring gulls. London journalist Stephen Osmer writes a provocative essay about two people called Nicholas Royle, one a novelist, the other a literary critic. Whether Royle, the literary critic, is having an affair with the beautiful Lily Lynch, and has stolen and published Silas Woodlock's short story, 'Gulls', becomes a race to the death for at least one of the authors. Playfully commenting on the main story are 17 'Hides': primarily about birds, ornithology and films (including Hitchcock's), these short texts give us a different view of the messy business of being human, the fragility of the physical world we inhabit and the nature of writing itself. Witty as well as erudite and delightful in its wordplay, An English Guide to Birdwatching explores the fertile hinterland between fact and fiction. In its focus on birds, climate change, the banking crisis, social justice and human migration, it is intensely relevant to wider political concerns; in its mischief and post-modern (or 'post-fiction') sensibility, it celebrates the transformative possibilities of language and the mutability of the novel itself.
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NICHOLAS ROYLE lives in Seaford and is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the highly acclaimed novel, Quilt ('delightfully eccentric humour and impressive linguistic experimentalism' Observer) as well as seminal books on literature, including The Uncanny and, most recently, Veering. His non-fiction, like his fiction, is distinguished by playful language and suggests a new way of seeing the relationship between creative and critical writing.
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