Woodward, Gerard August ISBN 13: 9780099286929

August - Softcover

9780099286929: August
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Paperback. Pages: 320 Publisher: Random House Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans's first field. It has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. At Easter. Mrs Evans writes to - ask if he. Colette and their four children require the third field for the summer; in August. their Bukta tent is ought down from the attic and unrolled in the garden of 89 Fernlight Avenue. Aldous has started to feel that a certain symbiosis has developed between their North London home and the Welsh village that they only ever see in August. When the Evanses acquire a milking parlour. Aldous associates it with the acquisition of the Jones's first car-but Colette is right in seeing 'the culling of the dairymaids' as a premonition of far more radical change. As the years pass. Aldous's family idyll starts t...

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Product Description:
Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans's first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. Aldous has started to feel that a certain symbiosis has developed between their North London home and the Welsh village that they only ever see in August. As the years pass, Aldous's family idyll starts to disintegrate and the farm becomes a place drenched in memory.
Review:
"A striking and impressive work...one of the most original novels of the year" (Observer)

"Simply one of the finest books about the pains and joys of family that I have ever read. The life of the Jones family glows like a barley-sugar window" (Time Out)

"A brilliantly written first novel... Spirit of time and place is lovingly remembered, steeped in nostalgia yet never sentimental... This is a novelist at work, glorifying in the old-fashioned virtues of plot and character...rendered in graceful prose that is beguiling and charming" (Mail on Sunday)

"Full of enjoyably acute social observation, August offers an absorbing account of a now vanished era of English life... Beguiling" (The Times)

"Gerard Woodward's first novel is founded on the brilliantly simple premise of portraying a family and its inexorable implosion through a succession of August camping holidays... A strong narrative, powered by cunningly withheld information and the threat of crisis" (Independent)

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0099286920
  • ISBN 13 9780099286929
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages320
  • Rating

Shipping: £ 4.76
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780393332711: August: A Novel

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780393332711
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
Softcover

  • 9780701171117: August

    Chatto..., 2001
    Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Seller Image

Woodward, Gerard
Published by Vintage (2002)
ISBN 10: 0099286920 ISBN 13: 9780099286929
New Soft Cover Quantity: 1
Seller:
booksXpress
(Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780099286929

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 20.52
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 4.76
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Gerard Woodward
Published by Random House Uk Ltd (2002)
ISBN 10: 0099286920 ISBN 13: 9780099286929
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Revaluation Books
(Exeter, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition. 324 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # zk0099286920

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 21.23
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 6.99
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Woodward, Gerard
Published by Vintage Publishing (2002)
ISBN 10: 0099286920 ISBN 13: 9780099286929
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Print on Demand
Seller:
moluna
(Greven, Germany)

Book Description Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans s first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. As the years pass, Aldous s family idyll starts to disintegrate. Seller Inventory # 594349833

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 19.69
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 21.42
From Germany to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds