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''A comic masterpiece'' Patrick Gale, Guardian Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner''s last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself. ''A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen'' Atlantic Review ''As a sustained work of historical imagination, it has few rivals ... one of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age'' Claire Harman

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780241476086
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 336
  • Udgivet:
  • 25. marts 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 196x130x26 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 246 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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Leveringstid: 4-7 hverdage
Forventet levering: 30. november 2024

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''A comic masterpiece'' Patrick Gale, Guardian
Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner''s last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.
''A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen'' Atlantic Review
''As a sustained work of historical imagination, it has few rivals ... one of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age'' Claire Harman

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