{"product_id":"reflections-on-blue-water-9780571296163","title":"Reflections on Blue Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alan Ross\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Faber Finds\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Faber Finds\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - he had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War... Rosss memoir is a showcase for a supremely poetic sensibility and a naturally gifted writer with an unerring eye for detail reporting on his experience with an infectiously joyous lyricism. Eldon King \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fund of associative literary information that could only have been amassed by a passionate reader. Gorky Ibsen Rilke DH Lawrence Walter Benjamin Pablo Neruda and scores more wrote in or near Ischia; Ross describes their books and their lives with detailed succinctness en route dipping in and out of his own thoughts and travel observations. Helen Simpson \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber Finds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780707827863,"sku":"9780571296163","price":2508.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780571296163.webp?v=1778047456","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reflections-on-blue-water-9780571296163","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}