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Trawl

Trawl is the third novel by the experimental British novelist B. S. Johnson. Published by Secker & Warburg in 1966, the book is an autobiographical novel based on a trip Johnson took on a fishing trawler to the Barents Sea. Although reviews of the novel were mixed, in 1967 Trawl was joint winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.

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Author
B. S. Johnson
Publication date
1966
Publisher
Secker & Warburg (UK)
Cover artist
John Holden
Followed by
The Unfortunates
Language
English

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Trawl

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples44
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Trawl

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related to Reception · 18
Trawl → Andrew Sinclair's The Better, Dorothy Richardson, Evening Standard, Half, He, Hilary Corke, However, In, Johnson, Johnson's, Martin Seymour-Smith, Montague Haltrecht, Positively, Reviews, Somerset Maugham Award, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times
related to Style · 10
Trawl → Fredric Warburg, Ginnie, It, Johnson, Johnson's, Secker, The, Virginia Kimpton, Warburg, When Johnson
related to Summary · 5
Trawl → As, Barents Sea, Despite, It, This
Author · 1
Trawl → B. S. Johnson
Cover artist · 1
Trawl → John Holden
Followed by · 1
Trawl → The Unfortunates
Language · 1
Trawl → English
Media type · 1
Trawl → Print
Pages · 1
Trawl → 183
Preceded by · 1
Trawl → Albert Angelo

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johnson novel narrator secker warburg book trawler based fishing barents sea reviews mixed 1967 joint winner somerset maugham award uk

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
TrawlAuthorB. S. Johnson1.00infobox
TrawlCover artistJohn Holden1.00infobox
TrawlFollowed byThe Unfortunates1.00infobox
TrawlLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
TrawlMedia typePrint1.00infobox
TrawlPages1831.00infobox
TrawlPreceded byAlbert Angelo1.00infobox
TrawlPublication date19661.00infobox
TrawlPublication placeUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
TrawlPublisherSecker & Warburg (UK)1.00infobox
Trawlis athird novel by the experimental British novelist B0.90text
Trawlrelated to ReceptionReviews0.60section

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