A month in the country
Carr, James Lloyd
A month in the country / J.L. Carr ; introduction by Michael Holroyd - New York : New York Review Books , 2000, c1980 - 135 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
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.
English.
9780940322479
Mural painting and decoration---Conservation and restoration---Fiction
World War, 1914-1918---Veterans----Fiction
Art restorers----Fiction
Villages---Fiction
North Riding of York (England)---Fiction
Psychological fiction
Historical fiction
PR6053.A694 / M6 2000
FIC CAR
A month in the country / J.L. Carr ; introduction by Michael Holroyd - New York : New York Review Books , 2000, c1980 - 135 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
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.
English.
9780940322479
Mural painting and decoration---Conservation and restoration---Fiction
World War, 1914-1918---Veterans----Fiction
Art restorers----Fiction
Villages---Fiction
North Riding of York (England)---Fiction
Psychological fiction
Historical fiction
PR6053.A694 / M6 2000
FIC CAR
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