Ulverton
by Thorpe, Adam
At the heart of this extraordinary novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton on the Wessex Downs of England: the fixed point in the book's 300-year cycle of history, both its backdrop and its central character. A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton through the generations: a soldier in Cromwell's army returns to find his wife remarried, and promptly vanishes; an eighteenth-century farmer introduces scientific planting methods and carries on an aff…
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- Full title :Ulverton / Adam Thorpe.
Summary
At the heart of this extraordinary novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton on the Wessex Downs of England: the fixed point in the book's 300-year cycle of history, both its backdrop and its central character. A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton through the generations: a soldier in Cromwell's army returns to find his wife remarried, and promptly vanishes; an eighteenth-century farmer introduces scientific planting methods and carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose; during a 1980s TV documentary, real estate developers discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromwell.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Classic
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 415 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780099573449, 009957344X, 9781784871390, 1784871397
- oclc:ocn806491365
- LC Classification:PR6070.H696
- Dewey Decimal:823.92
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