A Month in the Country

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Overview

This great story explores themes of England's loss of spirituality after the war, and of happiness, melancholy, as the protagonist Birkin recalls healing from wartime experiences and a broken marriage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987817317
Publisher:	David Rehak
Publication date:	11/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	229 KB

About the Author

James Lloyd Carr (1912-1994) worked as head teacher, novelist, and publisher. His books include A Season in Sinji, The Harpole Report, What Hetty Did, A Month in the Country and The Battle of Pollock’s Crossing. The last two books were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and A Month in the Country won the Guardian Fiction Prize.

Michael Holroyd was born in London and educated at Eton College. He has written biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and a four-volume biography of George Bernard Shaw.

What People are Saying About This

Michael Wood

The work is virtually perfect, and written with a great deal of liveliness and wit.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past.

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Editorial Reviews

Protagonist Tom Birkin is a broken man. Haunted by his experiences in the trenches of World War I and recovering from a divorce, Birkin accepts a job restoring a medieval mural of the apocalypse in a church located in a remote corner of Yorkshire. It is here, however, that Birkin, though alone with only an interpretation of the world's end for company, learns to live again. Carr's small gem of a novel was first published in 1980. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Country is only a little over 100 pages long, yet it manages to conjure a lost world so lovingly that it lingers in the mind long after it's over. Novels this beautifully written are rare indeed. Now, at laeast, this one won't be found only in rare bookshops.
—Time Out New York

Eve Claxton

A unique and special experience, a visit to a special time and place, deeply observed and portrayed in beautiful prose.

Washington Post

Carr¹s 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.

The New Yorker

Unlike anything else in modern English Literature.

The Spectator