Haweswater by Sarah Hall

Haweswater by Sarah Hall

"Here is a writer of show-stopping genius: everyone should buy this novel."--The Guardian

A remote village is threatened by industrialization and by a scandalous love affair in this debut novel by the author of Burntcoat and the Man Booker Prize finalist The Electric Michelangelo

The village of Marsdale is a quiet corner of the world, cradled in a remote dale in England's lovely Lake District. The rhythm of life in the deeply religious, sheltered community has not changed for centuries. But in 1936, when Waterworks representative Jack Ligget from industrial Manchester arrives with plans to build a new reservoir, he brings the much feared threat of impending change to this bucolic hamlet. And when he begins an intense and troubled affair with Janet Lightburn--a devout local woman of rare passion and strength of spirit--it can only lead to scandal, tragedy, and remarkable, desperate acts.

From Sarah Hall, the internationally acclaimed author of the Man Booker Prize finalist The Electric Michelangelo, comes a stunning and transcendent novel of love, obsession, and the passing of an age.

Hall, Sarah: - Sarah Hall is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham, having been educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol. Her work focuses on advancing cultural economy approaches to understanding of markets, power and elites under conditions of finance-led capitalism. Supported by funding from the Economic and Social Research council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation, her research mostly centres on London′s international financial district and its relations with North America, Europe and, increasingly, China. Her work has been pubished in a number of leading academic journals. She was appointed an Editor of the journal Goeoforum in 2013 and held a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship in 2015-2017.

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ISBN 13	9780060817251
ISBN 10	0060817259
Title	Haweswater
Author	Sarah Hall
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2006-10-10
Number of pages	304
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