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- ISBN 9781910463604
- Dimensions: 144 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Duckworth Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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'A beautiful book... full of intense light and colour, extraordinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour' Richard Kerridge, author of Cold Blood
As the summer draws to a close, a few snow beds - some as big as icebergs - survive in the Scottish Highlands. Christopher Nicholson celebrates these great, icy relics through a personal meditation on their significance. A book full of vivid descriptions and anecdotes, Among the Summer Snow explores the meanings of nature, beauty and mortality in the twenty-first century.
'Beautiful writing that transcends form to arrive somewhere improbable and compelling' Paul Evans, Guardian
Christopher Nicholson was born in London in 1956, and has lived near Shaftesbury in Dorset for the past thirty years. His first novel, The Fattest Man in America, was published in 2005. The Elephant Keeper, which followed in 2009, was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel award and for the Encore Award. His third novel, Winter, about the life of the elderly Thomas Hardy, was published in 2014. Among the Summer Snows was shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Writing and longlisted for the 2018 Highland Book Prize.
