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Adam Thorpe - Ulverton, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2012

Ulverton

Av Adam Thorpe

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Immerse yourself in the stories of Ulverton, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead' Hilary MantelAt the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromwell...Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts, this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England. WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM ROBERT MACFARLANE
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-01-31
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781448130061
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
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Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net

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"From its first page, you're aware that you are in the presence of a writer with exceptional gifts. By the final one, you know he has used them to create a masterpiece" -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times "If you believe English fiction is jaded, you must read Adam Thorpe... Tender, precise, tragicomic and unsentimental" -- Hilary Mantel Independent on Sunday "We aren't used to the many deep matters Thorpe touches on, nor to such a thorough grasp of the complex nature of our rural past, and through it, of all existence itself... Suddenly English lives again" -- John Fowles Guardian "These stories sing like psalms, robust and vibrant - a poet's novel and a celebration that no social historian would dare attempt" Observer "One of the great British fictional works of our time" LA Times

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