Watching the Fire-Eater

By Robert Minhinnick

From Copacabana to urban Yorkshire, from New Mexico to a Welsh funfair, from The Netherlands to the Clare coast, Robert Minhinnick's world is a shrinking one. Its cast of characters includes Rio beach beggars, Madison Avenue literati, saloon-bar poolsters and millionaire scrap merchants. These essays cover a variety of subjects: third world poverty and the internationalism of alcohol, rugby through the eyes of a vegetarian, nuclear power, sunbathing and a thanksgiving dinner for the demise of Margaret Thatcher. But at the core of this collection is a vivid series of attempts to strip away the exhausted mythologies of the writer's own country and the increasingly-packaged places he visits. Whether in the rainforest or the big match crowd, Minhinnick's language, acid, imagist, compassionate, celebrates the people he meets and, fleetingly, defines their lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854110756
• ISBN13: 9781854110756
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Seren Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"