The Man Who Planted Trees
A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
$25.64
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2022
Summary
VINTAGE EARTH - A series of transformative novels with the environment at their heart.
‘And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns’
While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.
Ten years later, after surviving the First World War, he visit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784878016 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784878014 |
| Author: | Jean Giono, Barbara Bray, Harry Brockway, Richard Mabey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 165g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 5mm |
| Series: | Vintage Earth |
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• “One of the greatest writers of our generation.” –Andre Mairaux • “Giono: he’s a god. I rank him with Chateaubriand and Proust.” –Jean d’Ormesson • “In Giono’s work what every sensitive, full-blooded individual ought to be able to recognise at once is ‘the song of the world.” –Henry Miller
About The Author
Jean Giono
Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque, Provence, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of Andre Gide, to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels, including The Horseman on the Roof, and numerous essays and stories. In 1953, the year in which he wrote The Man who Planted Trees, he was awarded the Prix Monegasque for his collective work. Jean Giono died in October 1970.
Harry Brockway was born in 1958 and studied sculpture at Kingston Art School and at the Royal Academy, where he learned engraving. He makes a living as a stonemason as well as a wood engraver.
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