J. L. Carr: A Month in the Country, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Month in the Country
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 02/2000
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141182308
- Item number:
- 5129216
- Weight:
- 104 g
- Format:
- 198 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 3.2.2000
- Series:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman 'Tender and elegant' Guardian 'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D. J. Taylor, Spectator
A 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 years. Adapted into a film starring Colin Firth, Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh, A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War.
With an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald
