A Month in the Country - Penguin Essentials
A Month in the Country - Penguin Essentials
paperback
Published:
14 August, 2014
Popular Books by J L Carr
View All Books by J L Carr
Description
A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country 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 - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241972038 |
| ISBN10 | 0241972035 |
| Number Of Pages | 112 |
| Item Weight | 69 g |
| Product Dimensions | 108 x 181 x 7 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
GoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
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.