Surrender

Joanna Pocock

ISBN 10: 1910695858 / ISBN 13: 9781910695852

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions Jul 2019, 2019

About this Item

Neuware - WINNER OF THE FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS ESSAY PRIZE IN 2018: Surrender won the third annual Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018, an annual competition for British and Irish writers yet to have secured a publishing deal, rewarding the best proposal for a book-length essay. The prize, which was judged by Joanna Biggs, Brian Dillon, Joanna Kavenna, Paul Keegan and Jacques Testard, was set up to find the best emerging essay writers and aims to reward essays that explore and expand the possibilities of the form. Initially made possible by an Arts Council Grant in 2015, it provides the winning author with their first experiences of publishing a book, from the planning, research and writing of it through to the editing, production and publicity stages. The book will then be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. A NARRATIVE NONFICTION WORK SET IN MONTANA: Joanna Pocock's debut is a work of narrative nonfiction nature writing in the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, set in Montana.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surrender
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions Jul 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910695858
• ISBN 13: 9781910695852
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 126H x 38D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 126 millimeters height by 38 millimeters depth
• Weight: 395 grams

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Synopsis

Blending personal memoir with reportage, Surrender is a narrative nonfiction work on the changing landscape of the West and the scavenger, rewilder and ecosexual communities, inspired by a two-year stay in Montana. In the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, Joanna Pocock, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, explores the changing landscape of the West in an era of increasing climatic disruption, rising sea levels, animal extinctions, melting glaciers and catastrophic wild fires.

About the Author

Joanna Pocock is an Irish-Canadian writer living in London. Her writing has notably appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Nation and Guardian US, and she is a contributing editor at the Dark Mountain project. She won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Surrender and in 2021 she was awarded the Arts Foundation’s Environmental Writing Fellowship. Greyhound is her second book.