Harvest - Softcover
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders and puts up a make-shift camp. That same night, the local manor house is set on fire. Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the new arrivals cruelly punished, and his neighbours held captive on suspicion of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of his story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . . Told in Jim Crace's hypnotic prose, Harvest evokes the tragedy of land pillaged and communities scattered, as England's fields are irrevocably enclosed. Timeless yet singular, mythical yet deeply personal, this beautiful novel of one man and his unnamed village speaks for a way of life lost for ever.
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Crace's signature measured delivery and deliberate focus create unforgettably poetic passages that quiver with beauty. An electrifying return to form."--"Publishers Weekly", starred review"Rarely does language so plainspoken and elemental tell a story so richly open to interpretation on so many different levels....With economy and grace, the award-winning Crace gives his work a simplicity and symmetry that belie the disturbances beneath the consciousness of its narrator....Crace continues to occupy a singular place in contemporary literature.
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James "Jim" Crace is an award-winning English writer. His novels include 'Quarantine,' which was judged Whitbread Novel of 1998, and 'Harvest,' which won the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Crace lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife. They have two children, Thomas Charles Crace and the actress Lauren Rose Crace, who played Danielle Jones in EastEnders.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1447211944
- ISBN 13 9781447211945
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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