0241485762 
Paperback Turtle diary / Russell Hoban.
Publication year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780241485767 (pbk.) :
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Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.
The turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves. Detail by detail their diaries record a world in which thought leads to action and action brings them to the sea. 'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The TimesBorn to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's illustrator, have begun thinking turtle thoughts. As they come together to hatch a plan to release the turtles into the sea, their diaries reveal how they find their own lives changing in imperceptible and quite unintended ways.'Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony' Time'This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement' John Fowles
Series title: Penguin modern classics
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208 pages ; 20 cm.
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