The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald
The Rings of Saturn — with its curious archive of photographs — records a walking tour along the east coast of England.
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Format: 8th trade paperback printing
Condition: Near fine, very light edge and cover wear.
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Publishing Info: New Directions, New York
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780811214131
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The Rings of Saturn — with its curious archive of photographs — records a walking tour along the east coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich.
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