Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe’s wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.
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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe’s wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781590178300 |
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Publisher: | New York Review Books |
Publication date: | 09/22/2015 |
Series: | NYRB Classics Series |
Pages: | 384 |
Sales rank: | 1,083,563 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d) |
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