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- Philip Hoare is the author of six works of non-fiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant (1990) and Noel Coward (1995), Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), and England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005). His book, Leviathan or, The Whale, won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. His latest book, The Sea Inside, is published by Fourth Estate. He presented the BBC 2 film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC’s Whale Night in 2008. A visting fellow at the University of Southampton, he is currently artist-in-residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which recently awarded him an honourary doctorate. @philipwhale
I wanted to thank you for writing the Guardian commentary on Provincetown as a part of small town America. As a home owner there, I too love it's liberal attitudes and enjoy the Cape. I am there as often as possible from my current home in London. I didn't understand the angry comments that your commentary received in the Guardian. Ptown might be unusual as an American icon but it exists and is uniquely American! I enjoyed reading your adoring perspective of the town that I, too, have come to love. Thank you, Craig Combs.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pleasure, Craig. I got some lovely comments from Provincetowners, of all kinds...
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