Peter Tolhurst
Autor/a de A Distant Cry: Stories from East Anglia
Obres de Peter Tolhurst
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1944-06-19
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 8
- Membres
- 50
- Popularitat
- #316,248
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
‘A belief was that round towers were once antediluvian wells and that the surrounding soil had, over time, been worn away leaving them exposed. These flint structures were, as they story goes, later transformed into round towered churches by the addition of nave and chancel.’
Interesting enough, but he illustrates this with a photo of a well shaft sticking up out of the beach at Covehythe where the entire village has fallen into the sea. Just astonishing.
The whole book is particularly well illustrated. It’s big, almost coffee table sized with inline illustrations and huge inner margins sometimes with pictures running vertically.
Some of his sentences are confused and you’ll need to read them twice to work out what he means. It’s the kind of thing an editor would have caught if it weren’t self published, but no publisher would have spent as much money on production.
Two stars is unfair and would have been higher if I had managed to read it as intended.… (més)