“Strøksnes is a journalist writing a book, and the subject is, admit it, outré cool. And he doesn’t treat it like some gonzo bizarrerie, but as chromatic, investigative work, one in which you can laugh instead of feel nothing but grim … Most of the time he is more focused with page after page of sharp vignettes…Strøksnes has dozens and dozens of these low-key noteworthies, on the family empires of lighthouse keepers, on the history of cod drying, the shock of a williwaw, the iridescence of place names .. There is the wonderful radiance of these two gents out chasing their curiosity — the we-only-regret-the-adventures-we-didn’t-take school — out chasing that romantic mingling of terror and beauty, the sublime.”
–Peter Lewis, The San Francisco Chronicle, June 29, 2017
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