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WEYMOUTH SANDS is the completion of John Cowper Powys' great trilogy that also contains WOLF SOLENT and A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE. Set in the idealized Dorset seaside town of Weymouth, it follows the fortunes of a group of lower-middle class characters who contrive to somehow make a living. Through the apparently small scale nature of their lives run tumultuous themes, here played out against the scandal that surrounds a local vivisection laboratory. "An immensity to which only Blake could provide any parallel in English literature" George Steiner "Talk about point of view... Powys talks about the real essence of things" Gail Godwin
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'Thousands of baby boom readers who grew up with Tolkein now want to spend their mature adulthood with the chronicles of Powys' --Independent
An intricate, provocative and living example of the novel which takes people as it finds them... The cool, calm impersonability of 'Weymouth Sands', and the author's all but diabolical power to peer beneath the surface, combine to make it a book of moment --New York Times
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An intricate, provocative and living example of the novel which takes people as it finds them... The cool, calm impersonability of 'Weymouth Sands', and the author's all but diabolical power to peer beneath the surface, combine to make it a book of moment --New York Times
John Cowper Powys was born in Derbyshire in 1872, the son of an Anglican clergyman and one of three brothers, all of whom were writers. He died in Wales in 1963, having spent most of his life between Dorset and the United States.
WEYMOUTH SANDS was written in upstate New York.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0140286470
- ISBN 13 9780140286472
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages592
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