Ulverton by Adam Thorpe

Ulverton by Adam Thorpe

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Zusammenfassung

A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton, a fictional village on the Wessex Downs, through its generations. Based on a bedrock of folktales, myth and oral tradition, the author builds layers of new narrative, often using dialect or the true demotic voice.

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Ulverton by Adam Thorpe

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromell...Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, was published in 1992, and he has written nine others - most recently Flight - two collections of stories and five books of poetry. His new translation of Madame Bovary has just been published by Vintage. He lives in France with his wife and family.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780749397043
ISBN 10 0749397047
Titel Ulverton
Autor Adam Thorpe
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr 1993-05-06
Seitenanzahl 400
Preise Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1993, Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Award 1993
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