The Hired Man
$33.09
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2002
Summary
Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John’s struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a ‘hired man’ is the theme of a novel which has been hailed as a classic of its kind - as meticulously detailed as a social document, as evocative as the writings of Hardy and Lawrence.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340770900 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340770902 |
| Author: | Melvyn Bragg |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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An intensely moving, deeply worked book - Sunday Telegraph
It is an extraordinary blend of delicacy and harsh simplicity which makes Melvyn Bragg a remarkable novelist. The perception with which he traces the currents of feeling between John and Emily, the gathering and receding of emotion, have a cumulative power of enormous conviction, a steady hardening of experience which is deeply unsetting and moving - The TimesA magnificently strong and sinewy novel - Sunday MirrorAbout The Author
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg is the author of sixteen novels including the bestselling Credo and The Maid of Buttermere, and of several works of non-fiction including Speak for England, an oral history of the twentieth century, and Rich, a biography of Richard Burton. He was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton’s Nelson Tomlinson School and at Oxford where he read history. He is controller of Arts at LWT and President of the National Campaign for the Arts, and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He lives in London and Cumbria.
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