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Byssus

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Byssus

By Jen Hadfield

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About the book

Byssus is Jen Hadfield's third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced 'bissus', and meaning the mussel's 'beard', the tough fibres which anchor it to the seabed - is a book first and foremost about home, and what it takes to find and forge one: amongst friends, alert to mortality, to love and to landscape. Her language, strongly rooted in the common names she finds in the sea, shore and moor of her adopted Shetland, has already been widely...Show more

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ISBN

9781447241102

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published year

2014

Language

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1

Original title

Byssus

Format

Paperback

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