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To the River. Journey Under the Surface

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The debut book by the English novelist, critic, and author of our bestselling Lonely Town. Lang travels all the way along the River Uz in Sussex County, where Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941, exploring the relationship between history and landscape and examining the role of rivers in human life. In the end, all roads lead to the Uz - this is where the story begins and this is also where the journey ends. The book is an in-depth exploration of how ghosts never leave their favorite places. Lang lifts from the marshy banks of the Ouse a variety of stories - from the brutal Baron's War in the thirteenth century to "dinasaur hunters" in the nineteenth - recalls Shakespeare, Homer, Iris Murdo and Kenneth Graham, author of the coastal classic The Wind in the Willows, and examines the role of rivers in human life, tracing their tangled flow in literature and mythology. But central to all the ghosts remains Virginia Woolf, Lang's constant companion on this journey, so the book can also be read as a biography of this unique English writer: a monument to the fluidity of her life and literary process - "for despite the sad ending, she seemed, like a scuba diver, to have the gift of seeing what was hidden beneath the surface".
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