The Short Day Dying - Couverture souple

Hobbs, Peter

 
9780156032414: The Short Day Dying
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0156032414 ISBN 13 : 9780156032414
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2006

Synopsis

This is the story of four seasons in the life of Charles Wenmoth, a twenty-seven-year-old apprentice blacksmith and Methodist lay preacher in Cornwall in 1870. Life is at its hardest; poverty is everywhere. Charles crosses and recrosses the raw, beautiful landscape, attending to the sick and helping the poor, preaching in chapels with ever-dwindling congregations. He questions his faith along the way but never quite loses it, balancing it with the pleasure he takes in nature, the light in the skies, the colors of the earth, and in his attachment to a girl to whom he is drawn by the piety and patience she maintains despite her long illness.

Inspired by the language of his great-great-grandfather's diaries and the Bible, influenced by authors as diverse as Hardy, Blake, and Faulkner, Peter Hobbs has created a first novel of breathtaking ambition and stylistic innovation, and of enormous emotional power.

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À propos de l?auteur

The descendant of Methodist lay preachers, PETER HOBBS lives in London. The Short Day Dying is his first novel.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0156032414
ISBN 13 
9780156032414
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
HarperCollins Publishers
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9780571217182: The Short Day Dying

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0571217184 ISBN 13 :  9780571217182
Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2006
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