Mr Weston's Good Wine - Couverture souple

Powys, T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140000739 ISBN 13 : 9780140000733

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1976

Synopsis

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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

Quatrième de couverture

'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, Daily Telegraph

Among the residents of a small Dorset town called Folly Down, an unlikely struggle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. For a single winter's evening, Time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift of awareness descends upon the people. Because Mr Weston the wine merchant has come to town and the advert atop his Ford van lights up the sky above the village. Whether the villagers choose to buy Mr Weston's light or dark wine is up to them.

See also: The Following Story

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140000739
• ISBN 13: 9780140000733
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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