JOHNSON, B.S. Trawl. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited. 1966.
8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles to spine, in dust jacket designed by John Holden; pp. 183, [1]; minimal wear to head of spine, light toning to upper area of rear panel; otherwise near fine.
First edition of B.S. Johnson's third novel.
Relayed in the first person as an internal monologue, this novel centres on a three-week voyage aboard a deep-sea fishing trawler, while simultaneously striving to reach the very heart of the human condition. Far from being a seasoned man of the ocean, the narrator is crippled by relentless seasickness and drifts into long, meandering reflections on his past, gradually steering himself toward a quiet form of resolution.
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