Narratives

House of Tides

Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West

The Book

2000

Narrative
21 x 14 cm
243 pages
Paperback
ISBN10: 978-9780748662791
Polygon, Edinburgh

Using a combination of poetry and prose, this volume is both autobiographical and autogeographical, it presents an anthology of vignettes portraying the life and landscape of the author’s self-imposed exile on the Breton shore.

White´s latest work is an extraordinary hybrid of intimate autobiography, social commentary, live literary theory, geopoetic fieldwork, oceanic poem, quiet cultural manifesto, all rolled into one. His account of his journey up through England to Scotland is not only a humorous sociological analysis, it is a heartfelt homecoming, accompanied by the opening up of new intellectual and cultural perspectives.

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