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A lost girl and a sprawling map of an unsettling city. Wren Lithgow
has followed her concert pianist mother around the cities of Europe
for almost two decades. When they arrive in the mysterious
city-state of O, where Wren was conceived during a time of civil
war, she resolves to find man she believes is her father. As the
city closes in around her, Wren gives herself over to a place of
which she understands nothing, but to which she feels a profound
connection, in a story of the watchers and the watched, the ways in
which we conceive of home and, finally, the possibility of living
on our own terms.
Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and
deeply moving portrait of the sea and the people whose livelihoods
revolve around it, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the
sea holds over the human imagination. Since the earliest stages of
human development, the sea has fascinated and entranced us. It
feeds us, sustaining communities and providing livelihood, but it
also holds immense destructive power that threatens to destroy all
we have created. Â It connects us to faraway places, offering
the promise of new lands and voyages of discovery, but also shapes
our borders, carving divisions between landmasses and eroding the
very ground beneath our feet. In this lyrical meditation on what it
is that draws us to the waters' edge, author Wyl Menmuir tells the
stories of the people whose lives revolve around the coastline and
all it has to offer. In twelve interlinked chapters, Menmuir
explores the lives of local fishermen steeped in the rich
traditions of a fishing community, the beachcombers who wander the
shores in search of the varied objects that wash ashore and the
stories they tell, and all number of others who have made their
lives around the sea. In the specifics of these livelihoods and
their rich histories and traditions, Wyl Menmuir captures the
universal human connection to the ocean’s edge. Into this
seductive tapestry Wyl weaves the story of how the sea has
beckoned, consoled and restored him. The Draw of the Sea is a
meaningful and moving work into how we interact with the
environment around us and how it comes to shape the course of our
lives. As unmissable as it is compelling, as profound as it is
personal, this must-read book will delight anyone familiar with the
intimate and powerful pull which the sea holds over us.
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The Many (Paperback)
Wyl Menmuir
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R277
R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Observer Best Fiction of
2016 Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an
abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast,
sight unseen. When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom
of his move, but starts to renovate the house for his wife, Lauren
to join him there. When the villagers see smoke rising from the
chimney of the neglected house they are disturbed and intrigued by
the presence of the incomer, intrigue that begins to verge on
obsession. And the longer Timothy stays, the more deeply he becomes
entangled in the unsettling experience of life in the small
village. Ethan, a fisherman, is particularly perturbed by Timothy's
arrival, but accedes to Timothy's request to take him out to sea.
They set out along the polluted coastline, hauling in weird fish
from the contaminated sea, catches that are bought in whole and
removed from the village. Timothy starts to ask questions about the
previous resident of his house, Perran, questions to which he
receives only oblique answers and increasing hostility. As Timothy
forges on despite the villagers' animosity and the code of silence
around Perran, he starts to question what has brought him to this
place and is forced to confront a painful truth. The Many is an
unsettling tale that explores the impact of loss and the
devastation that hits when the foundations on which we rely are
swept away.
Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and
deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make
their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the
sea holds over the human imagination. 'A beautiful portrait of
lives shaped by the swell of ocean and tide - a powerful
salt-thread of connection' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path
Since the earliest stages of human development, the sea has
fascinated and entranced us. It feeds us, sustaining communities
and providing livelihoods, but it also holds immense destructive
power which can take all those away in an instant. It connects us
to far away places, offering the promise of new lands and voyages
of discovery, but also shapes our borders, carving divisions
between landmasses and eroding the very ground beneath our feet. In
this beautifully-written meditation on what it is that draws us to
the waters' edge, author Wyl Menmuir tells the stories of the
people whose lives revolve around the sea in the Cornish community
where he lives. In twelve interlinked chapters, Menmuir explores
the lives of local fishermen steeped in the rich traditions of a
fishing community, the beachcombers who wander the shores in search
of the varied objects which wash ashore and the stories they tell,
and all number of others who have made their lives on the beautiful
Cornwall coast. In the specifics of these livelihoods and their
rich histories and traditions, Wyl Menmuir captures the universal
human connection to the sea. Into this seductive tapestry, Wyl
weaves the story of how the sea has beckoned, consoled and restored
him. This book is a meaningful and moving work into how we interact
with the environment around us, and how it comes to shape the
course of our lives. As unmissable as it is compelling, as profound
as it is personal, this must-read book will delight anyone familiar
with the intimate and powerful pull which the sea holds over us.
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Elementum Journal 2018, 4: Edition Four (Paperback)
Jay Armstrong; Contributions by Tim Birkhead; Illustrated by Neil Gower; Contributions by Wyl Menmuir; Illustrated by Jackie Morris; Contributions by …
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Elementum Journal, 3 - Roots (Paperback)
Jay Armstrong; Contributions by Kathleen Jamie, Jim Crumley, Wyl Menmuir, Alex Woodcock, …
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Discovery Miles 4 080
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