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Penguin Book of the Beach

Description: ISBN 0143006371 / Genre: Fiction / In this illustrious international selection, Robert Drewe has drawn together twenty-five of the finest ... more

Penguin Book of the Beach ... contemporary writers whose stories represent the most stimulating, startling, deeply moving and humorous writing about the beach. Contributors include Paul Bowles, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Ian McEwan, David Malouf, Frank Moorhouse, Graham Swift and John Updike.

Newest Review: ... telling us of a young boy learning to fly, a woman meeting her dead husband and a moving account of an octopus’ de ... more

... ath- but they all had a strong coherent thrust stringing them together. I wondered what the binding force was and I came to the conclusion that it was humility. Humility that is and simplicity. The contrast of the human stories and the environment -whilst an easily overplayed theme- just seemed to work. The sea imbued a tremendous sense of humility, then innocence and then fragility, both by its power and its constancy and also its irreleva...more

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Penguin Book of the Beach: La vie contents spill on the beach (1329 words)
by scallmorpheedy - written on 08.08.02 (Very useful, 209 readings)
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The lady at the till was absolutely positive I’d made a good buy. I was the first person to buy it and she’d quite fancied it herself. She hoped I’d enjoy it and she smiled and I did too. Oh lordy hot weather!. I was off work and it was sunny, a lady had smiled at me I was heading for Whitley Bay so the book just seemed so apt. Sandychips a la scrumpy it was the start of a nice couple of days. The cover told me it was an anthology of contemporary short stories based loosely around beaches. Travelling on the train my mind began to pre-empt it. I had images of bandstands and sticky rock, I foresaw sand in the sarnies and I could feel it ...

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