In The Place Of Fallen Leaves (an uncorrected proof copy)

Pears, Tim:

ISBN 10: 0552995363 / ISBN 13: 9780552995368

Published by London,Hamish Hamilton,1993, 1994

About this Item

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Near fine wraps-a few small creases down spine but a nice copy. The authors acclaimed first novel.65 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 2692

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In The Place Of Fallen Leaves (an uncorrected proof copy)
• Publisher: London,Hamish Hamilton,1993
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552995363
• ISBN 13: 9780552995368
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

This overwhelmingly hot summer everything seems to be slowing down in the tiny Devon village where Alison lives, as if the sun is pouring hot glue over it. 'This idn't nothin', ' says Alison's grandmother, recalling a drought when the earth swallowed lambs, and the summer after the war when people got electric shocks off each other. But Alison knows her memory is lying: this is far worse. She feels that time has stopped just as she wants to enter the real world of adulthood. In fact, in the cruel heat of summer, time is creeping towards her, and closing in around the valley.

About the Author

Tim Pears is the author of eight novels: In the Light of Morning, In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), Wake Up, Blenheim Orchard, In a Land of Plenty(made into a ten-part BBC series), A Revolution of the Sun, Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the 2011 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011), and Disputed Land. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and has taught creative writing at Ruskin College and elsewhere. He lives in Oxford with his wife and children. timpears.com