James Hamilton-Paterson lives and works in Italy. He is the author of several novels, including Loving Monsters and Gerontius, winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel Award in 1989, a collection of essays dedicated to the lost grandeur of the sea entitled Seven Tenths, and several non-fiction books including America's Boy, a study of Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines. He is also the author of two books of poetry and a regular contributor to Granta.
"The kind of book that, were he alive now, Shelley might have
written."
-Charles Sprawson "Hamilton-Paterson's hallucinogenic narrative
brings to mind both Coleridge and Borges."
- Cristopher Hirst "Personal, quirky, scientific, and poetical by
turns-The Songlines of the sea."
-Daily Telegraph (UK) "[Hamilton-Paterson] logs the destruction of
the last wilderness and its place in the imagination with the
intense vision of an angry Thoreau."
-Observer (UK) "Should be required reading for the decision makers
of every maritime nation."
- The New York Times Book Review "Under the sparkle and often
superb imagery lie austere Conradian depths."
- Sunday Telegraph (UK) "Not since Rachel Carson have I heard such
eloquence, such passion for the sea and everything it means to
us."
-The New York Review of Books
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