Judgment day / Penelope Lively.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lively, Penelope, 1933-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pageants.

Church architecture--Conservation and restoration.

England.

Church architecture--Conservation and restoration--Fiction.

Church architecture.

Women--England--Fiction.

Women.

Pageants--Fiction.

Villages--Fiction.

Villages.

England--Fiction.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

210 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Grove Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2003]

Summary:

Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "blessed with the gift of being able to render matters of great import with a breath, a barely audible sigh, a touch. The result is wonderful writing." Judgment Day takes us into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by sideshows of adultery and gossip. An avowed agnostic, Clare is nonetheless caught up in the restoration of the church, even inciting the villagers to put on a pageant that re-creates the church's dark past. With flawless precision, Lively brings the village and its inhabitants to life as an unpardonable death reminds them all that the world is a very uncertain place.

ISBN:

0802139663

OCLC:

51613952