Ash before Oak
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Jeremy Cooper's first novel in over ten years, this work won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize and is celebrated for its precise and beautiful prose. It offers a moving and thoughtful meditation on the fragility and wonder of life.
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This novel will appeal to readers who appreciate literary fiction that combines elements of nature writing and introspective storytelling. Ideal for those interested in psychological themes and evocative descriptions of the English countryside.
The winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, Ash Before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate.
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Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around him.
Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful, winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, Jeremy Cooper's first novel in over a decade is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.
"Very moving, beautiful and so thoughtful too - a wonderful evocation of animals and birds, sky and Somerset." - Kate Mosse
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781910695890
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 April 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 125.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 536
About the Author
Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of five previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum's catalogue of artists' postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC's Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.
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