Dexter Petley
Autore di White Lies
Opere di Dexter Petley
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- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 15
- Popolarità
- #708,120
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
This is an authentic, enchanting, but unsentimental memoir of growing up in Kent in the late sixties and early seventies. If you are looking for a memoir on fishing there is not so much in here; it is more an undercurrent to the whole book and something that he returns to again and again. It is full of colourful characters that add much to the narrative who Petley came across as he was growing up and learning the ropes of life. It is also a snapshot of a rural life as it underwent significant social changes as Britain moved from the Sixties to the Seventies. Occasionally dark and often gritty, this memoir is tempered by the crisp, fine writing.… (altro)