PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780099448921
- Categories BX, BXOS, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Author(s) W. G. Sebald
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Pages 320
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 12.9cm x 2.4cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.31 kg
product description
The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is a rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, and an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The Times