Philip Hoare Quote
I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.
Philip Hoare
I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.
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About Philip Hoare
Hoare's books are published in translation in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Brazil, and China . They include Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant and the authorised biography of Noël Coward, both of which received front cover reviews in the New York Times Book Review .
Hoare subsequently wrote Wilde's Last Stand, England's Lost Eden, and Spike Island . These were followed by Leviathan or, the Whale, winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009 .
The Sea Inside and RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, the latter acclaimed as 'a masterpiece' by The Guardian , were both serialised as BBC Radio Books of the Week . Whales featured in RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, which blended travel, memoir and literary history. The Guardian described it as "a remarkable book... always rich and strange ."
Hoare's latest book, Albert & the Whale, led the New York Times to call the author a 'forceful weather system' of his own . Musician Patti Smith declared it 'a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world' . Author Olivia Laing said, 'Everything that Philip Hoare writes is bewitching' .