As I Was a Boy Fishing: Selected Essays

by Lewis Davies, Gwen Davies (Editor)

Overview

Set in various countries, this collection of 19 diverse essays reflects humor and humanity, pain and warmth in the lives of the characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781902638324
Publisher:	Parthian Books
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Pages:	143
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lewis Davies is a writer and publisher whose work includes the bestselling, award-winning classic novel of Welsh contemporary life, Work, Sex and Rugby, as well as other novels, plays, poetry collections and essays.

Table of Contents

	As I Was a Boy Fishing	1
	The Border	5
	The Cost of Tomatoes	7
	We Come Here to Work	12
	The Union	13
	Fear and Faith	17
	Selling Papers	27
	Where you from?	39
	You Alright?	43
	New Views in the Old City	49
	Gulp	52
	Much Too Soon	61
	Nuts and Bollocks	65
	Pleading Guilty	73
A Slow Site I	The Cradle of the Wind	77
A Slow Site II	Still Digging	80
	Me and Tim	87
	Gone from Under Your Nose	93
	Pieces of Happiness	99