A Month in the Country
'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the ye…
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Weitere Autoren: Fitzgerald, Penelope (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-118230-8
- EAN: 9780141182308
- Produktnummer: 8429463
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.0 cm 102 g
- Gewicht: 102
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James Lloyd Carr, born 1912, attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in the North Riding and Castleford Secondary School. He died in Northamptonshire in 1994. His novel A Month in the Country won the Guardian Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a memorable film.
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