Trawl
14 February 2013
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by novelist Jon McGregor.
The novel describes, in the first-person, a three-week voyage aboard a deep-sea fishing trawler in the Barents Sea, not unlike the one Johnson undertook in preparation to write the book. Isolating himself from the world he knows, as well as from the ship’s crew, the narrator reflects on past events and relationships, hoping for...
Details
14 February 2013
192 pages
9781447200369
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Don’t think that because Johnson took stylistic risks that he must be unapproachableGuardian
A most gifted writerSamuel Beckett
The future of the novel depends on people like B. S. JohnsonAnthony Burgess