The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | Beyond The Sea: Uwe Johnson, Patrick Wright, & The Isle Of Sheppey
The Quietus , February 27th, 2021 09:13 Patrick Wright, author of the new book, The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness, talks to Simon Matthews about the "moral utopia" in the Thames Estuary Brent geese over Shellness and nudist beach. All pictures courtesy Patrick Wright We live in interesting times. Who would have thought that the odyssey of legendary East Germany writer Uwe Johnson, from the Baltic to Sheerness forty-five years ago, would have resonance today in a political and social landscape scarred by Brexit? A legendary figure in European literature, Johnson chose to sett...
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