A Month in the Country
$22.76
- 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: | 69g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 108mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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About The Author
J.L. Carr
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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