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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

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Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe’s wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Release: September 22, 2015

ISBN: 1590178300

ISBN 13: 9781590178300

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

0/5 ( ratings)

Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe’s wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Release: September 22, 2015

ISBN: 1590178300

ISBN 13: 9781590178300

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