(Fourth Estate / Atico de los Libros, Spain / Mare Verlag, Germany / Einuadi, Italy; The Whale, Ecco USA).
Winner of the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. A gripping voyage of discovery into the heart of an obsession.
‘Philip Hoare was long been acclaimed as a brilliantly unconventional writer … This is the book he was born to write, a classic of its kind’, Rachel Cooke, The Observer.
@japhek my lovely publishers say: 'They can order online from BN to pick up in store!' t.co/vva2qyBZ4W
Today's Dürer is the melancholy artist, bent over his art; a creative, modernist state for him and James Joyce and… t.co/xItx6FEQMF
3.30 am: no one gives you the sea, no one takes any chances, they don't dare to get in it, it's too big and black, by day or by night.