From a carcass competition in the Karoo to a shambolic murder trial in Cape Town, William Dicey's essays freewheel across an open terrain of interests. Dicey is curious and inventive, weaving strands of essay, journalism, fiction and self-reportage into something uniquely his own. Mongrel investigates a range of topics ? radical environmentalism, the fault lines between farmer and farm worker, the joys and sorrows of reading ? yet drifts of concern and sensibility draw the collection together. Several essays touch on how books can move, and sometimes maul, their readers. Mongrel is idiosyncratic, witty, potent.
Author(s): Dicey, William
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Pub. Date: 2016
pages: 216
Language: lang_en
ISBN: 978-1-4152-0688-1
eISBN: 978-1-4152-0908-0
Edition: 1
From a carcass competition in the Karoo to a shambolic murder trial in Cape Town, William Dicey's essays freewheel across an open terrain of interests. Dicey is curious and inventive, weaving strands of essay, journalism, fiction and self-reportage into something uniquely his own. Mongrel investigates a range of topics ? radical environmentalism, the fault lines between farmer and farm worker, the joys and sorrows of reading ? yet drifts of concern and sensibility draw the collection together. Several essays touch on how books can move, and sometimes maul, their readers. Mongrel is idiosyncratic, witty, potent.