Ulverton - Softcover
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.
Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.
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"From its first page, you're aware that you are in the presence of a writer with exceptional gifts. By the final one, you know he has used them to create a masterpiece" (Peter Kemp Sunday Times)
"If you believe English fiction is jaded, you must read Adam Thorpe... Tender, precise, tragicomic and unsentimental" (Hilary Mantel Independent on Sunday)
"We aren't used to the many deep matters Thorpe touches on, nor to such a thorough grasp of the complex nature of our rural past, and through it, of all existence itself... Suddenly English lives again" (John Fowles Guardian)
"These stories sing like psalms, robust and vibrant - a poet's novel and a celebration that no social historian would dare attempt" (Observer)
"One of the great British fictional works of our time" (LA Times)
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"If you believe English fiction is jaded, you must read Adam Thorpe... Tender, precise, tragicomic and unsentimental" (Hilary Mantel Independent on Sunday)
"We aren't used to the many deep matters Thorpe touches on, nor to such a thorough grasp of the complex nature of our rural past, and through it, of all existence itself... Suddenly English lives again" (John Fowles Guardian)
"These stories sing like psalms, robust and vibrant - a poet's novel and a celebration that no social historian would dare attempt" (Observer)
"One of the great British fictional works of our time" (LA Times)
The sensational debut novel by Adam Thorpe, now regarded as a 20th century classic.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0749397047
- ISBN 13 9780749397043
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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