Summary
With wry humour and real freshness, SNAPPER charts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him.
Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana, ‘the bastard son of the Midwest’, SNAPPER is a book about birdwatching, a woman who won’t stay true, and a pick-up truck that won’t start. Here turtles eat alligators for breakfast, Klansmen skulk in the undergrowth, and truckers drop into the diner of a town named Santa Claus to ensur…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755396214 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755396219 |
| Author: | Brian Kimberling |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 140mm x 200mm |
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Critics Review
[The] coolest of cool… a quirky and memorable debut
Superb… always engaging, sometimes beautiful and often funny’ - Telegraph
Captivating… Snapper could do for birdwatchers what Annie Proulx did for small-town newspaper reporters and cowboys - Independent on SundayFunny and adroit fiction - Margaret Atwood, via TwitterDelightfully entertaining - EsquireBrilliant… an absolute joy of a book. I predict big things for it - Scott Pack, Me and My Big Mouth Brimming with unusual characters and hilarious idisoyncracies… Kimberling shows much promise - ShortlistFascinating and captivating - Washington PostFunny and absorbing’ - BooklistBrian Kimberling
Brian Kimberling is a native of Indiana and a graduate of Indiana University. In the mid-nineties he was a research assistant for a major study of Indiana songbirds, an experience central to his first book. Since then he has lived and worked ‘mostly as a TEFL teacher’ in the Czech Republic, Mexico, Turkey and England, where he lives now. He began writing his first book on the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA in 2009, and was awarded the first annual Janklow & Nesbit Prize for the best manuscript to emerge from the course. He lives in Bath with his wife and son.
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