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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749397043 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749397047 |
| Title | Ulverton |
| Author | Adam Thorpe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1993, Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Award 1993 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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