A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics)
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Book Info
Author
J.L. Carr
Word Count
33,750 words
based on page count
Pages
135 pages
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Edition Publisher
New York Review of Books
Edition Publish Date
2000-10-31
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0940322471
ISBN-13: 9780940322479
Description
A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. 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.
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