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Rivas' story is slight but the telling is magisterial, the depth utterly honest, his touch unerringly light, the resonances of his writing wide and the characterisation vivid: prose this poetic and this devoid of sentiment is as rare as it is breathtaking. War's abominable nature is the background to the work and its machinations move the Doctor away from Marisa, onto a train full of victims of TB and into a military hospital. Herbal is there all the way as guard, and witness, and occasionally as actor, intervening in ways he sometimes hardly understands himself. This is one of the first Galician novels to be translated into English and the book's sense of place adds wonderfully to the poignant work Rivas gets his relatively few words to achieve. The Carpenter's Pencil is a hugely moving, seductively readable, absolute triumph. --Mark Thwaite
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This true first edition, first printing (first impression) with a full numberline beginning with "1" to the copyright page to indicate a true first print in a New Dust Jacket. SIGNED, DATED and LOCATED by Manuel Rivas to the title page. The author has also sketched a horseshoe to the title page. [Manuel Rivas, Gaillimh, MMXII]. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001729
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