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5.0 out of 5 stars
A great insight into what might have been,
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This review is from: Coots in the North & other stories (Hardcover)
Only a 9 because, alas the work is unfinished. The Death and Glory's stow away in a lorry carrying a motor cruiser to the north. Awaiting them is the D's. They get this far and out on the lake, but AR never got any farther.
Still wonderful to read and imagain
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Coots in the North,
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This review is from: Coots in the North (Red Fox Older Fiction) (Paperback)
This book is an important reference for Arthur Ransome readers. It contains an introduction and very useful background information about Ransome and his books. A few of Ransome's short stories (some previously published), and just a few chapters of what would have been Ransome's last book are patched together from old typescripts, rough notes and sketches.
The book "Coots in the North" has a good beginning, a fairly rough (in my opinion) ending, and nothing in the middle. I can't see how this could have been made into a book. Ransome left an Author's Note about how he came to write "Swallows and Amazons" that the book almost wrote itself. That was not the case here. Cliff |
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Coots in the North & other stories by Arthur Ransome (Hardcover - 1988)
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