Two Riders of the Storm - Hardcover

Giono, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0720691982 ISBN 13: 9780720691986

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, 1967

Synopsis

1967, British hardcover edition (of a work first published in France two years earlier), Peter Owen, London, UK. 227 pages. Interesting novel set in Provence. Concerns two brothers whose affection turns to hatred, followed by tragedy.

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Review

'Giono gives us a world he lives in, a world of dream, passion and reality' --Henry Miller

'It has a timeless fairytale quality ... the writing is zestful and broadly humorous, the philosophy that of a French D.H. Lawrence' --Sunday Times

'A violent but beautiful story of the love between two brothers ... Jean Gionoi recalls D.H. Lawrence, but he accepts violence and eroticism far more naturally than Lawrence, and the explosive gusto of his language marks him as a novelist of great originality' --Spectator

About the Author

JEAN GIONO was born in the small Provencal town of Manosque. Giono's fictional Provence is an almost mythological place of harsh beauty and unforgiving people, a world away from the pastis, plane trees and boules evoked by his great friend Marcel Pagnol. Giono wrote more than thirty novels as well as many volumes of short stories, plays, poetry, essays and film scripts. After serving on the western front, Giono was gaoled for his pacifist views, and subsequently imprisoned again for the trumped-up charge of collaboration. His major works include To the Slaughterhouse and The Man Who Planted Trees, which, along with Two Riders of the Storm, have established him as one of the most distinguished of French writers. He died in Manosque, having spent the majority of his life there, in 1970.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Publication date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0720691982
• ISBN 13: 9780720691986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 227