Short Day Dying

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Charles Wenmoth is a blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the wildest reaches of South-West England. It is 1870 and Wenmoth devotes his weekdays to work and the Sabbath to walking great distances to preach to dwindling congregations. Charles burns with faith - but it's a faith balanced by his pleasure in nature and the physical world around him. In his relationship with Harriet French, a blind girl who maintains her belief despite her debilitating condition, Wenmoth finds his fragile faith tested in the most trying of circumstances.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-03-16
Mått:127 x 197 x 14 mm
Vikt:167 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Faber & Faber
ISBN:9780571217182
Utmärkelser:Winner of Betty Trask Award 2006

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Mer om författaren

Peter Hobbs is the author of two novels, The Short Day Dying and In The Orchard, The Swallows, as well as a collection of short stories, I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train. His work has won a Betty Trask Award, and been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a writer-in-residence for the schools literacy charity, First Story.

Recensioner i media

"'How rare it is to come across a new novel as beautifully conceived and finished as this... A wonderful book.' Kirsty Gunn, Observer '[Wenmoth] is a man of simple faith, whose observations both of the redemptive powers of nature and the cruel nature of rural poverty are beautifully written.' Ian Marchant, Guardian"