A Month in the Country

J L Carr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2026
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
9780241820223 (ISBN)

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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 1987 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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2026
Reihe/Serie	Little Clothbound Classics
Einführung	Penelope Fitzgerald
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	114 x 167 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-13	9780241820223 / 9780241820223
Zustand	Neuware