A Month in the Country (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
128
Utgivningsdatum
2000-02-01
Upplaga
New e.
Utmärkelser
Winner of Guardian Fiction Prize 1980
Förlag
Penguin Classics
Originalspråk
English
Medarbetare
Fitzgerald, Penelope (introd.)
Dimensioner
198 x 128 x 7 mm
Vikt
90 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
,
ISBN
9780141182308

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'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman 'Tender and elegant' Guardian 'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, Spectator A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years. Adapted into a film starring Colin Firth, Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh, A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War. With an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald
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I wanted to write A Month in the Country in space - a brief, lovely homage to the natural world, pastoral writing about how deeply humans respond to our natural environments and the relationship between beauty and survival. In the end (I guess inevitably) the two books bore very little resemblance, but I don't think Orbital would exist without it * Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital * The book I keep coming back to, it's one of the best books I've ever read. I've never met anyone who didn't love it * Richard Osman * Tender and elegant * Guardian * Unlike anything else in modern English Literature -- D.J. Taylor * Spectator * Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting * New Yorker * Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past -- Penelope Fitzgerald

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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.