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Title: A Month in the Country
Condition: New
Author: J L Carr
Contributor: Penelope Fitzgerald (Introduction by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 014118230X
EAN: 9780141182308
ISBN: 9780141182308
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction
Release Date: 02/03/2000
Description:

'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, Spectator

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 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

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