The Hired Man - Softcover

Bragg, Melvyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573080712 ISBN 13: 9780573080715

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

Based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of rural and industrial working life early in the twentieth century, The Hired Man tells of one family's - Bragg's grandparents' - journey from land laborers to colliers and back to the land. The superb score is a marvelous succession of chorales, operatic duets and vigorous foot stomping rhythms.|5 women, 14 men

About this title

About the Author:

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Place in England, which was longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.

Review:

A magnificently strong and sinewy novel * Sunday Mirror * It is an extraordinary blend of delicacy and harsh simplicity which makes Melvyn Bragg a remarkable novelist. The perception with which he traces the currents of feeling between John and Emily, the gathering and receding of emotion, have a cumulative power of enormous conviction, a steady hardening of experience which is deeply unsetting and moving * The Times * An intensely moving, deeply worked book * Sunday Telegraph *

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0573080712
• ISBN 13: 9780573080715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70