Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of anecdotes, scraps of history, arcane lore and unfamiliar quotations on the condition of man and the world he lives in. This is a prose poem that is part diary, part almanac, part anthology.
About the Publisher
Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.
