Synopsis
During the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921, a young writer is holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, striving to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. In what sense can art be made out of such horror?
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Adam Thorpe is the author of three novels, three books of poetry and a volume of short stories. For the last ten years he has lived in southern France with his wife and three children.
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"Thorpe offers an immaculate re-recording of long-dead voices" Observer "As always, Adam Thorpe displays a gift for revealing the suggestively sinister in a pastoral setting." Independant "his complex, beautifully written, witty and insightful novel never loses sight of its theme" Daily Mail "Thorpe's First World War is not like any other" Herald-Glasgow
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership marks. 370 pages clean and tight. It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust-storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes in the form of two very different women. A visit to the hallucinatory wreckage of post-war Flanders brings strange repercussions in its wake. Everyone is in some way damaged by the terrible years of the War; in what sense can art be made out of such horror? Adam Thorpe's novel seeks to touch the marrow of this jazz-and-death-haunted period - ironically the most excitingly creative of our century. In a language deeply soaked in the time, and by means of a beguiling story which gradually haunts its own process, Nineteen Twenty-One vividly recreates the year in which The Waste Land was written, as well as offering a bright mirror to the inner and outer complexities of our own troubled times. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 145680
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