“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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29 August 2015

SPRING! LOOKIN OUT MY BACK DOOR

High noon today at Casa Blanca in the sweet sweet McLaren Vale ... ewes with fat lambs cleaning up the vineyard before budburst, when they'll be moved away ... sure beats Roundup! Check the young dudes' lifestyle (in a baby bushvine vineyard):

... and the front yard: that's the Yangarra Ironheart Vineyard ... photos Philip White

 

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