G. B. Edwards's now-classic novel about a man of the Channel Islands: the bleak seacoast, the omnipresent family feuds, and the influences of the past that make up his life. Edwards was a fanatically private person; in his youth he had traveled extensively and was a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, and other well-known figures, but in his later years he was virtually a recluse. This novel was found among his papers when he died in 1976 at the age of 77, and contains an introduction by John Fowles..
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G. B. Edwards's now-classic novel about a man of the Channel Islands: the bleak seacoast, the omnipresent family feuds, and the influences of the past that make up his life. Edwards was a fanatically private person; in his youth he had traveled extensively and was a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, and other well-known figures, but in his later years he was virtually a recluse. This novel was found among his papers when he died in 1976 at the age of 77, and contains an introduction by John Fowles..
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Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket. 400 pages; Light wear to DJ edges. Minor smudges to exterior edge of pages, top edge mostly. Light glue discoloration on endpapers. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; -We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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New York. 1981. March 1981. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394516516. 400 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Daniel Maffia. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘There may have been stranger literary events than the book you are about to read, but I rather doubt it. its voice and its method are so unusual that it belongs nowhere on our conventional literary maps. a remarkable achievement. '-John Fowles. THUS JOHN FOWLES introduces us to a lost masterpiece of English fiction, an extraordinary autobiographical novel found, after his death at the age of 80, among the papers of a recluse (once a friend of D. H. Lawrence) and now published at last. Ebenezer Le Page speaks-a man of the Channel Islands, his view of the world circumscribed by the sea and the rocks and the distant coast of France. Yet, like many people who live close to the land and the sea, he has a much deeper perception of events and people than others more ‘cultured' than himself. From the first moment we meet him, in mid-sentence, we are spellbound: he is crusty, funny, contrary, with a furious, loving attachment to the past and an old man's querulousness towards the new. His voice fills the book-is the book-as he moves restlessly in his mind down the years, recalling the past (his past ), from his childhood before the Boer War through the Nazi occupation of the Islands during World War II that shapes his middle years, to the end of the sixties and the intimations of a world in which he is only uneasily at home. It is a life crammed rich with family quarrels and tragedies, neighboring feuds that reach on across the generations, the continuing war between the sexes (the book is full of wonderfully indomitable women), and the changes-for the worse, he thinks-that have taken place in the island he loves. This is a remarkable creation, a hypnotic story of passionate friendships and sorrows, joys and loves, kinships and animosities, that swells until it has peopled a whole new world It is a brilliant and intricate novel, undoubtedly a classic of its kind-reminiscent in its fullness, its nobility of character, its grand simplicity, of the pastoral sagas of Thomas Hardy, and of his literary descendant, John Fowles himself. inventory #3039.
