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A Month in the Country
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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A Month in the Country
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.
A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald, author of Offshore, in Penguin Modern Classics.
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A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald, author of Offshore, in Penguin Modern Classics.
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.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr is highly acclaimed for its tender and elegant prose, praised as one of the best by readers like Richard Osman. The Guardian describes it as tender and elegant, while The Spectator highlights its uniqueness in modern English literature. The New Yorker finds it a haunting tale of lost love and art's compensating joy, and Penelope Fitzgerald notes Carr's ability to vividly re-enter the imagined past.
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ISBN: 9780141182308
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 February 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 101g
Pages: 128
About the Author
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.
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