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The Art of Flight Fredrik Sjoeberg

The Art of Flight By Fredrik Sjoeberg

The Art of Flight by Fredrik Sjoeberg


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The Art of Flight Summary

The Art of Flight by Fredrik Sjoeberg

Accidental Journeys with the Bestselling Author of The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine tree. That's where it may have started. Fredrik Sjoeberg continues his exploration of the pleasures and trials of those who spend their time tracing the smallest details of the natural world in these two tales of ambition, fear and hapless romance. Calling on his childhood memories and experience as a hoverfly collector, and following the trail of long forgotten entomologists before him who left their native Sweden for the national parks of the United States, Sjoeberg contemplates the richness of life and the strange paths it leads us on.

The Art of Flight Reviews

Digressive, discursive and delightful. -- Michael Kerr * Telegraph *
A joy . . . Fredrik Sjoeberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy. * Nature *
By his own admission Sjoeberg has a butterfly mind; the effect of his narrative excursions amounts to a sort of Sebald-lite, albeit without the fictional element. What insures this approach against triviality is the author's patient alertness to pattern, to telling correspondence. -- Nat Segnit * Times Literary Supplement *

About Fredrik Sjoeberg

Fredrik Sjoeberg collects hoverflies on the island of Runmaroe, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books, including The Fly Trap and The Raisin King, which form a trilogy with The Art of Flight.

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CIN1846147999VG
9781846147999
1846147999
The Art of Flight by Fredrik Sjoeberg
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20160630
560
N/A
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