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Voices of the Old Sea
by: Norman Lewis

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780330345613
ISBN: 0330345613
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Pages: 231
Publication Date: January 12, 1996
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador
Sales Rank: 14945

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Editorial Review:

Synopsis:
Describes Norman Lewis's three post-war successive summers in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now the Costa Brava. The book records the villagers' struggle to sustain their precarious existence and to defend it against the enticements of tourist development.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Perfect holiday read
The UK edition is a miserable production. For much the same price get the US edition published by Carroll & Graf through Amazon 'used and new' list, or Abebooks. It has a larger format with proper margins on nice paper and opens properly, but type only slightly bigger and still rather squidgy.
How fictional is the book? Reviews talk about Farol and Sort as if they're real places, but I can't find them. Does anybody know?

Rating:

- A masterpiece
Travel writing has become a major sub-section of the publishing industry. These days, anyone from gloomy UK who has bought a ruin somewhere somewhere hot and inconvenient, surrounded by dodgy but colourful locals either swindling them rotten or turning out to be diamond geezers, might be able to pay for the fosse-septique or the pruning of the orange grove by knocking out a slim volume - and even a sequel or two. One thing that characterises many of these books is the inadequacy of the writing.

Not so with Norman Lewis. It is the wonderful writing that makes it inevitable that we are drawn completely into the world he describes. How can such simplicity of style produce such colour and tone? How can he be at once at arm's length and ... Read More:

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- Exceptional account of a vanished way of life
This travel book explores the life of an impoverished fishing village in the far NE of the Spain during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It documents without sentimentality the gradual decline and destruction of traditional ways of life under pressure from the arrival of mass tourism and environmental decay. The way of life of the people and their beliefs is so extraordinary you'd think they lived on another planet. A wonderful book.

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