Rules For Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
MacIver, military historian and one-time centre for Scotland's rugby team has holed up in his holiday home after his wife's death. He makes rules to keep himself going, as he and his house crumble away - what he must burn, when he should eat, how to write something everyday... As he becomes involved in his story about soldiers in the trenches of the Great War he begins to reflect on his own experiences in WWII and the loss of his son in Vietnam, and attempts to make sense of his life and he trubulent era through which he has lived.
A lean, quietly elegiac postscript to the protaganist's existence.. told in simple, restrained prose, this is a novel brimming with humanity - one to savour -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *
Written with admirable restraint and composed with sturdy, elegant prose, it's an object lesson in the fact that, sometimes, less can be more. Human and moving * Daily Mail *
A quarter of a century in the making, Peter Pouncey's first novel is laden with the fruits of a lifetime's reflection... The detail reveals Pouncey as a brilliant miniaturist * Guardian *
An intense, memorable little book * The Times *
Poignant...profound and moving. The work of a superior intelligence * Irish Independent *
Written with admirable restraint and composed with sturdy, elegant prose, it's an object lesson in the fact that, sometimes, less can be more. Human and moving * Daily Mail *
A quarter of a century in the making, Peter Pouncey's first novel is laden with the fruits of a lifetime's reflection... The detail reveals Pouncey as a brilliant miniaturist * Guardian *
An intense, memorable little book * The Times *
Poignant...profound and moving. The work of a superior intelligence * Irish Independent *
Born in China of British parents, educated at Oxford, Peter Pouncey is a classicist and academic who moved to the US in the 1960s and is now President Emeritus of Amherst College. This is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099483571 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099483572 |
| Title | Rules For Old Men Waiting |
| Author | Peter Pouncey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-04-06 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of McKitterick Prize 2006 |
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