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The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux

 
Description: ISBN 0618658955 / Author: Paul Theroux / Genre: Travel

Newest Review: ... - and those fleeting instances when a scene of beauty is caught like an intense illumination, when a momentary arrangement of ... more

 ... the world seen form a particular angle is captured with perfect clarity, vivid and unforgettable. "The Kingdom by the Sea" is now, of course, a period piece, and Theroux natural talent for misery and depressiveness is ideally suited to depicting the Kingdom of 1982, the time of the Falklands War, the gloomy hardships of Thatcherite depression with huge unemployment, empty hotels and closed factories, the destruction of industry, the Northern Irish 'troubles' in full bloom, the looming end of the railway net...more

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MagdaDH
Crowned Review The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux: The Way You Were (732 words)
by - written on 04/06/07 (Very useful, 115 readings)
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Paul Theroux undertook his journey round the coast of the United Kingdom exactly 25 years ago, in 1982. Even more than normally, his book is very slight on information, strong on description and dominated by the author's perceptions, feelings and judgements. Being his usual miserable persona, Theroux doesn't spare the locations he visits and the people he meets just because they happen to be British. Wry, observant and always seeing the empty half of the glass (unless it's filled with sludge), he travels the length of the coast of the UK by train and on foot, avowedly skipping castles and cathedrals and under-sampling cities. He is, of course, frightfully ...  Read the complete review

Aang
Premium Review A SUGGESTIVE DANCE (2381 words)
by - written on 19/08/00 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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############################################# The Great Railway Bazaar is magic and so is this. I wish I could write like Mr Theroux (father of Louis) because he has that way of describing bits of Britain that make you think : Gosh, that's just how it is (at least, if you're feeling in a Theroux-sort-of mood), and isn't it fascinating. ############################################# MARGATE - "Margate had never been fashionable. It had never even been nice.... "Skinheads and chip-shops and rain...." Theroux walks round Britain's coast (just occasionally taking a train) and describes the ...  Read the complete review

 

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