Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Carr, J.L.; Holroyd, Michael |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 10/31/2000 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.
In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great Warand a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where heis to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living inthe bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboringeach day to uncover an anonymous painter’s depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin findsthat he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. Butsummer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflectson the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolationfor all that has been lost.
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