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Essays by Chris Arthur
The essays in The Slap and the Salamander move from an execution in seventeenth century Japan to a meditation on the nature of long-tailed tits; from thoughts sparked by the building of a new school to an imaginative approach to commuting; from exploring a sense of home and belonging to the light thrown on the nature of the world by sparrowhawks; from remembering a face to the impact of reading on a life. Present in every essay is a concern to recognize the extraordinary dimensions of the ordinary, to look closely at what Alexander Smith calls “the infinite suggestiveness of common things.”
Paperback, 214 pages
ISBN: 9781972482216
Essays by Chris Arthur
The essays in The Slap and the Salamander move from an execution in seventeenth century Japan to a meditation on the nature of long-tailed tits; from thoughts sparked by the building of a new school to an imaginative approach to commuting; from exploring a sense of home and belonging to the light thrown on the nature of the world by sparrowhawks; from remembering a face to the impact of reading on a life. Present in every essay is a concern to recognize the extraordinary dimensions of the ordinary, to look closely at what Alexander Smith calls “the infinite suggestiveness of common things.”
Paperback, 214 pages
ISBN: 9781972482216
