Cautious, A Boat Adrift: Working Class Writing in the 21st Century with Tommy Sissons (Acid Horizon on Zer0/Repeater)
Acid Horizon31 Jul 2023

Cautious, A Boat Adrift: Working Class Writing in the 21st Century with Tommy Sissons (Acid Horizon on Zer0/Repeater)

Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/cautious-a-boat-adrift/ As a failing journalist cares for his alcoholic grandfather, remnants of the elderly man’s long-buried stories resurface and drive him to an obsessional search for truth. “The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many darkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.” Leeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman following the death of his ...

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