The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher

The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.

`Lovingly rooted in 1970s and 1980s Sheffield, “The Northern Clemency” effectively reclaimed a lost genre of politically astute, richly decorated provincial family saga for modern readers’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent (Book of the Year)

`A tremendous book. Against an unfashionable 1970s background Philip Hensher has composed not so much a condition-of-England as a condition-of-humanity novel, which is gripping and surprising and shocking in all kinds of unpredictable ways, and enormously wide in psychological and moral scope. What a writer he is!’ Philip Pullman

`Wise and strong and unputdownable.’ A.S. Byatt, Financial Times (Book of the Year)

Alex Clark, Sunday Telegraph (Book of the Year)

`A remarkable novel…a cumulative effect of luminous richness, like a perfect piece of orchestration…something more than brilliant cleverness makes this novel extraordinary.’ Jane Shilling, Sunday Times

`Philip Hensher’s new book shows that the epic, exciting, deeply engaged novel of society is not dead in England. The book has all the blessings of art, with the pulse of what Henry James called `felt life’ at the centre of its moral adventures.’ Andrew O’Hagan

Philip Hensher is a columnist for the Independent, arts critic for the Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. He has written five novels, `Other Lulus’, `Kitchen Venom’ (Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), `Pleasured’, the Booker-longlisted `The Mulberry Empire’ and `The Fit’, as well as a collection of short stories, `The Bedroom of the Mister's House’. He lives in South London.

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ISBN 13	9780007174805
ISBN 10	0007174802
Title	The Northern Clemency
Author	Philip Hensher
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2009-04-02
Number of pages	736
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.