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Hired Man

Bragg Melvyn
Heftet / 2002 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780340770900
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Sceptre
Vekt
170 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Bragg Melvyn

Om bidragsyterne

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, Credo and Now is the Time, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for fiction in 2016. His books have also been awarded the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the WHSmith Literary Award, and have been longlisted three times for the Booker Prize (including the Lost Man Booker Prize). He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Adventure of English and The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.

Hired Man

Bragg Melvyn
Heftet / 2002 / Engelsk
Bragg Melvyn
Heftet / 2002 / Engelsk
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An intensely moving, deeply worked book

Sunday Telegraph

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

A magnificently strong and sinewy novel

Sunday Mirror

BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY'An intensely moving, deeply worked book'Sunday Telegraph'Extraordinary'The TimesSet in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired man' is the theme of a novel which has been hailed as a classic of its kind - as meticulously detailed as a social document, as evocative as the writings of Hardy and Lawrence.
Les mer
Bragg's acclaimed story of one family's experience of the social and cultural upheaval of England as it moves into the twentieth century
An intensely moving, deeply worked book
An intensely moving, deeply worked book - Sunday TelegraphIt 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 TimesA magnificently strong and sinewy novel - Sunday Mirror
Les mer
Bragg's acclaimed story of one family's experience of the social and cultural upheaval of England as it moves into the twentieth century

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An intensely moving, deeply worked book

Sunday Telegraph

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

A magnificently strong and sinewy novel

Sunday Mirror

BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY'An intensely moving, deeply worked book'Sunday Telegraph'Extraordinary'The TimesSet in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired man' is the theme of a novel which has been hailed as a classic of its kind - as meticulously detailed as a social document, as evocative as the writings of Hardy and Lawrence.
Les mer
Bragg's acclaimed story of one family's experience of the social and cultural upheaval of England as it moves into the twentieth century
An intensely moving, deeply worked book
An intensely moving, deeply worked book - Sunday TelegraphIt 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 TimesA magnificently strong and sinewy novel - Sunday Mirror
Les mer
Bragg's acclaimed story of one family's experience of the social and cultural upheaval of England as it moves into the twentieth century

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780340770900
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Sceptre
Vekt
170 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Bragg Melvyn

Om bidragsyterne

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, Credo and Now is the Time, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for fiction in 2016. His books have also been awarded the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the WHSmith Literary Award, and have been longlisted three times for the Booker Prize (including the Lost Man Booker Prize). He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Adventure of English and The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.

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