Place in the Country A

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Fusing biography and essay, A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald

When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Place in the Country, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp.

Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiration - Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive, inimitable voice.

A Place in the Country is a window into the mind of this much loved and much missed writer.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141037011
Published: March 2014

Number of pages: 224
Width: 130 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 15 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd