Mr Weston's Good Wine - Couverture souple

Powys, T.F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099503743 ISBN 13 : 9780099503743

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2006

Synopsis

"Mr Weston's Good Wine" is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift of awareness falls upon a dozen memorable characters. During the book a child knocked down by his car is miraculously brought back to life; the sign 'Mr Weston's Good Wine' lights up the sky; and the villagers soon discover that the wine he sells is no ordinary wine.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A book without parallel. It is an allegory, it is a bucolic farce, it is a religious (on anti-religious?) masterpiece' A. N. Wilson

Mr Weston's Good Wine is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in the small Dorset village of Folly Down. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when Time stands still and the bittersweet gift of awareness falls upon a dozen memorable characters. Over the course of the evening a child knocked down by a car is miraculously brought back to life; the sign 'Mr Weston's Good Wine' lights up the sky; and the villagers soon discover that the wine Mr Weston sells them is no ordinary wine.

'Very few twentieth-century authors have the knack of writing convincingly of first and last things. A religious writer without any vestige of belief, Theodore Powys is one of them' John Carey

Revue de presse :

"Mr Weston's Good Wine is a book without parallel. It is an allegory, it is a bucolic farce, it is a religious (or anti-religious?) masterpiece" (A N Wilson)

"The greatest value of his work, though, is in showing that it is still possible to write about the primordial human experiences to which religion is a response...Very few 20th-century authors have the knack of writing convincingly of first and last things. A religious writer without any vestige of belief, Theodore Powys is one of them" (John Gray New Statesman)

"Grimly brilliant" (John Carey Sunday Times)

"[It is] generally considered his masterpiece" (Washington Post)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0099503743
• ISBN 13: 9780099503743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240