A Month in the Country: Nominiert für die Shortlist zum 'Lieblingsbuch des unabhängigen Buchhandels' 2016 (Penguin Essentials, 33) - Softcover

Carr, J L

 
9780241972038: A Month in the Country: Nominiert für die Shortlist zum 'Lieblingsbuch des unabhängigen Buchhandels' 2016 (Penguin Essentials, 33)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241972035 ISBN 13: 9780241972038
Verlag: Penguin, 2014

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A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'

One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .

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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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A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'

One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241972035
ISBN 13 
9780241972038
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
112
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Madrid
Madrid
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