Isolarion Gerard Fanning "The Blood Choir is a

"The Blood Choir is a work of extraordinary perception and honesty

and about the activities and institutions that shape an understanding of what literature is and what it can do

I lit a candle in the shoeing shed

and part travelogue—uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist’s own concerns as she comes of age as an artist

Isolarion Gerard Fanning "The Blood Choir is aA travel writing classic, with a new preface by the author and an afterword by Geoff Dyer. Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of journeys? James Attlee asks these questions and more in his thoughtful, streetwise, and personal account of a pilgrimage to a place he thought he already knew: the Cowley