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by Carr, J. L.

A Month in the Country

£9.99

Author: Carr, J. L.

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 February 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Modern Classics’ series.

Paperback | 128 pages
196 x 129 x 8 | 102g

‘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, SpectatorA 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

SKU: '9780141182308 Category:

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Weight0.102 kg
Dimensions19.6 × 12.9 × 0.8 cm