Ulverton
by Thorpe, Adam
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromell...Told thr…
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- Full title :Ulverton / Adam Thorpe ; with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane and afterword by the author.
Summary
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromell...Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England. Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead . (Hilary Mantel).
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- Publication Date:2012, ©1992.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012, ©1992.
Notes
Originally published: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1992.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 volume ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780099573449, 009957344X
- oclc:ocn821267816
- Dewey Decimal:823.92
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