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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Olivia Laing

ISBN: 9781786891587

Year: 2017

Format: Paperback

Nature, Memoir

To the River by
Olivia Laing

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$ 300.00 mxn

To the River by

Olivia Laing

Reviews

"Magical … By turns lyrical, melancholic and exultant, To the River just makes you want to follow Olivia Laing all the way to the sea"

The Daily Telegraph

Summary

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore.

Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

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