Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.
Common Ground
β Scribed by Rob Cowen
- Publisher
- Random House;Windmill Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 498 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
'Sensitive, thoughtful and poetic, Rob Cowen rakes over a scrap of land with forensic care, until the ordinary becomes extraordinary.' Michael Palin __
'I am dreaming of the edge-land again'
After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, Rob Cowen finds himself on unfamiliar territory, disoriented, hemmed in by winter and yearning for the nearest open space. So one night, he sets out to find it - a pylon-slung edge-land, a tangle of wood, meadow, field and river on the outskirts of town. Despite being in the shadow of thousands of houses, it feels unclaimed, forgotten, caught between worlds, and all the more magical for it.
Obsessively revisiting this contested ground, Cowen ventures deeper into its many layers and lives, documenting its changes through time and season and unearthing histories that profoundly resonate and intertwine with...
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