The Method of Drifting
Ian Patterson: John Craske, 10 September 2015
Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske
by Julia Blackburn.
Cape, 344 pp., £25, April 2015,978 0 224 09776 5 Show More
by Julia Blackburn.
Cape, 344 pp., £25, April 2015,
“... than paranoid, less is left out and there are more loose ends. There’s also an explicit debt to Thomas Browne, and his inclusive curiosity. Threads made me think of Thomas Nashe and his pamphlet ‘Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe’, about Great Yarmouth and the ‘praise of the red herring’. It’s hard to write about Norfolk ... ”