A Month in the Country
$22.84
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2014
Summary
A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, 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 - …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241972038 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241972035 |
| Author: | J.L. Carr |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 68g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 111mm x 181mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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J.L. Carr
James Lloyd Carr (1912-1994) was educated at the village school in Carlton Miniott and Castleford Secondary School. His novel A Month in the Country received the Guardian Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was adapted into a well-regarded film.
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