Descrizione
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. Different voices tell the story of the village over three hundred years: 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 discovers a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromwell...
Told through diaries, sermons, pub conversations and film scripts, this exceptional novel reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.
Told through diaries, sermons, pub conversations and film scripts, this exceptional novel reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.
Dettagli del libro
Formato
Brossura
Pagine
415 pagine
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
Jan 7, 2013
Editore
Vintage Classics
Edizioni
10 edizioni
ISBN-10
009957344X
ISBN-13
9780099573449