Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Flitting - Ben Masters

The Flitting

By: Ben Masters

eBook | 4 July 2024

At a Glance

eBook


RRP $25.00

$21.99

12%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $5.50 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

When Ben Masters' father, a dedicated naturalist, is confined to the house with inoperable cancer, he is unable to follow the butterfly season for the first time since his childhood. His son must become his connection to the outdoors, reporting back on his beloved Purple Emperors, Lulworth Skippers, Wood Whites and Silver-studded Blues. The problem is, his son knows practically nothing about the natural world.

Blending natural history, pop culture, and literary biography, this unforgettable memoir charts a terminal summer when butterflies become a way for father and son to talk about masculinity, memory, identity, generational differences, and, ultimately, loss and continuation.

The Flitting takes readers on an unlikely journey, flitting between the lives and works of Vladimir Nabokov and other literary lepidopterists; the artistic metamorphoses of Prince and Joni Mitchell; butterflies and gender in Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter and The Sopranos; the voices of John Clare and Luther Vandross. These diverse subjects come together in an intensely authentic portrait of a father and son sharing passions, lessons and regrets as they run out of time.

on

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 10th April 2025

More in Biographies

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

eBOOK

eBook

$1.99

Six Days in Leningrad - Paullina Simons

eBOOK

The Menzies Era - John Howard

eBOOK

$12.99

Lion : A Long Way Home - Saroo Brierley

eBOOK

Paris in Love - Eloisa James

eBOOK

$10.99

The Boat - Nam Le

eBOOK

$17.99

Seriously ... I'm Kidding - Ellen DeGeneres

eBOOK

Acolytes : Poems - Nikki Giovanni

eBOOK

$12.99