Homing
On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return
$25.91
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
10 March 2020
Summary
‘Big-hearted and quietly gripping’ - Guardian
‘I love Jon Day’s writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account’ - Olivia Laing
’[A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds’ - Observer
‘This is nature writing at its best’ - Financial Times
‘Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure’ - Charlotte Higgins
‘A vivid evocation of a remarkable…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473635401 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473635403 |
| Author: | Jon Day |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 10 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
This beautiful book by an English lecturer-cum-pigeon fancier reveals eerie parallels between human and bird life … [A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds – The Observer
This beautiful book by an English lecturer-cum-pigeon fancier reveals eerie parallels between human and bird life … [A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds…Homing is a highly literary book, dense with quotes from the likes of Sebald and Solnit , Perec and Henry Green . That Day’s own prose does not feel out of place amid such exalted company gives you an idea of what a very good book this is - Observer
Homing did something I thought would be impossible - made me fall in love with the humble, familiar feral pigeon. It is both a repository of fascinating stories and memorable characters, and a deeply felt personal enquiry into the nature of ‘home’. Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure - Charlotte Higgins[Day has] succeeded in making that most familiar of birds seem mysterious, almost magical, and illuminated, brilliantly, the urge towards home - Malachy TallackBig-hearted and quietly gripping - GuardianI love Jon Day’s writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account - Olivia LaingDay’s stories from the history of human-pigeon relations are well chosen and well told … there’s a great deal to like in the simple imagery of a young family and their pigeons growing up together in an east London home - Literary ReviewAbout The Author
Jon Day
Jon Day is a writer, critic and academic. He is the author of Cyclogeography (Notting Hill Editions, 2015) and Homing (John Murray, 2019), which was a book of the year in the Guardian, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Observer, and was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, and his essays and reviews have also appeared in the Financial Times, New York Review of Books, Bookforum, n+1, Guardian, The Spectator and many others. He teaches English and creative writing at King’s College London.
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