Nineteen Twenty-One - Softcover

Thorpe, Adam

 
9780099597568: Nineteen Twenty-One

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It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes in the form of two very different women. A visit to the hallucinatory wreckage of post-war Flanders brings strange repercussions in its wake. Everyone is in some way damaged by the terrible years of the war; in what sense can art be made out of such horror?

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Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories and six poetry collections and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net

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‘Rarely has such heat been associated with so strong a wind . . . Hour after hour passed and not a drop fell . . . on the parched and cracking ground’ The Times, July 25th, 1921

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