The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs

The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs

Charles Wenmoth is a blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the wildest reaches of South-West England. It is 1870 and Wenmoth devotes his weekdays to work and the Sabbath to walking great distances to preach to dwindling congregations. Charles burns with faith - but it's a faith balanced by his pleasure in nature and the physical world around him. In his relationship with Harriet French, a blind girl who maintains her belief despite her debilitating condition, Wenmoth finds his fragile faith tested in the most trying of circumstances.

"'How rare it is to come across a new novel as beautifully conceived and finished as this.. A wonderful book.' Kirsty Gunn, Observer '[Wenmoth] is a man of simple faith, whose observations both of the redemptive powers of nature and the cruel nature of rural poverty are beautifully written.' Ian Marchant, Guardian"

Peter Hobbs is the author of two novels, The Short Day Dying and In The Orchard, The Swallows, as well as a collection of short stories, I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train. His work has won a Betty Trask Award, and been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a writer-in-residence for the schools literacy charity, First Story.

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ISBN 13	9780571217182
ISBN 10	0571217184
Titel	The Short Day Dying
Autor	Peter Hobbs
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-03-16
Seitenanzahl	208
Preise	Winner of Betty Trask Award 2006, Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 2005
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