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Ash before oak / Jeremy Cooper.
Van Pelt Library PR6053.O566 A85 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Jeremy, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurasthenia--Patients--England--Fiction.
- Neurasthenia.
- Country life--England--Somerset--Fiction.
- Country life.
- Patients.
- Somerset (England)--Fiction.
- Somerset (England).
- New Zealand--Fiction.
- New Zealand.
- England.
- England--Somerset.
- New Zealand Region.
- Genre:
- Diary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 531 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Written in the form of a journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's subsequent recovery through his re-engagement with the world around him, including a vist to his sister in New Zealand. The title derives from an old country rhyme forecasting rain. Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful, Jeremy Cooper's first novel in over a decade is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life."--Publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781910695890
- 1910695890
- OCLC:
- 1076264282
- Publisher Number:
- 99983668311
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