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Love, Madness, Fishing - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Love, Madness, Fishing - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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List price R473
Loot Price R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
You Save R86 (18%)
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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.
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