The Pin Jar by Sam Reid
| Author | Sam Reid |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Rough Trade Books |
| ISBN | 9781914236068 |
| Idea Code | 250747 |
A story-cycle from the deep taproot of the Sussex 'Weald', 'The Pin Jar' is a record of vernacular folk tales as transcribed by the enigmatic composer and amateur ethnographer Francis J. Cardwell, who habitually, compulsively, taped the various stories and songs he encountered in the now lost pubs of his county. Earthy, half-haunted, dialect-rich – this is the true stuff of deep weird England. Sam Reid's beguiling debut presents us with the folk process of story-telling and song reimagined as a radical literary experiment and fictional archive of place-memory.
| 180 p, ills bw, 13 x 17 cm, pb, English |
Rough Trade Books
