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The Sea View Has Me Again - Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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The Sea View Has Me Again - Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of
Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found
sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking
Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent Evening
Post. "Charles" was the name he offered to his new acquaintances.
But this unexpected immigrant was actually Uwe Johnson, originally
from the Baltic province of Mecklenburg in the GDR, and already
famous as the leading author of a divided Germany. What caused him
to abandon West Berlin and spend the last nine years of his life in
Sheerness, where he eventually completed his great New York novel
Anniversaries in a house overlooking the outer reaches of the
Thames Estuary? And what did he mean by detecting a "moral utopia"
in a town that others, including his concerned friends, saw only as
a busted slum on an island abandoned to "deindustrialisation" and a
stranded Liberty ship full of unexploded bombs? Patrick Wright, who
himself abandoned north Kent for Canada a few months before Johnson
arrived, returns to the "island that is all the world" to uncover
the story of the East German author's English decade, and to
understand why his closely observed Kentish writings continue to
speak with such clairvoyance in the age of Brexit. Guided in his
encounters and researches by clues left by Johnson in his own
"island stories", the book is set in the 1970s, when North Sea oil
and joining the European Economic Community seemed the last hope
for bankrupt Britain. It opens out to provide an alternative
version of modern British history: a history for the present, told
through the rich and haunted landscapes of an often spurned
downriver mudbank, with a brilliant German answer to Robinson
Crusoe as its primary witness.
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