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In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.
Hardcover:
9781850892533 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, November 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In J.
9780312546809 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920
Paperback:
9780141046679 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $14.10
9780940322479 | New York Review of Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.00
9781569562857 | Braille edition (William a Thomas Braille, December 1, 1992), cover price $18.90
9780897331241 | Reprint edition (Academy Chicago Pub, December 1, 1984), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920
CD/Spoken Word:
9780753122228 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, June 30, 2003), cover price $51.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780753116845 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, July 1, 2003), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: A haunting story of two war veterans, who meet in the quiet English countryside of the north, in 1920.
Product Description: This classic humour novel chronicles the momentous journey of Steeple Sinderby (an unremarkable Fenland village) from the mire of obscurity to national heroics. This unbelievable feat is contrived by the serendipitous meeting of three great men: Mr Fangfoss (who cares nothing for football), Dr Kossuth - a Hungarian academic and headmaster of the village school, and the Wanderers captain Alex Slingsby, a mighty warrior biding his time in quiet Sinderby for the chance to rise once more...read more
Hardcover:
9781853753633 | Prion Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This classic humour novel chronicles the momentous journey of Steeple Sinderby (an unremarkable Fenland village) from the mire of obscurity to national heroics.
Hardcover:
9780860108283 | 2 edition (Graham & Trotman, June 1, 1987), cover price $272.00
Paperback:
9780860108276 | Graham & Trotman, July 1, 1987, cover price $212.00
Paperback:
9780701206468 | Chatto & Windus, December 1, 1986, cover price $6.95
Hardcover:
9780860105053 | Graham & Trotman, June 1, 1984, cover price $70.00
Paperback:
9780704334328 | Quartet Books Ltd, November 1, 1983, cover price $4.95
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