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A Month in the Country - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)
J L Carr (author), Penelope Fitzgerald (author of introduction)Published: 03/02/2000
An elegiac meditation on nature, loss and the passing of time, Carr’s classic novella is a moving account of two men trying to reclaim the peace and contentment they knew before the Great War.
In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave. Out of their meeting, comes a deeper communion and a catching up of the old primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141182308
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 102 g
Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 7 mm
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The book I keep coming back to, it's one of the best books I've ever read. I've never met anyone who didn't love it. - Richard Osman
Tender and elegant - Guardian
Unlike anything else in modern English Literature - D.J. Taylor, Spectator
Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting - New Yorker
Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past - Penelope Fitzgerald
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