- Fiction, Villages, Fiction, general, England, fiction
At the heart of this extraordinary novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton on the Wessex Downs of England: the fixed point in the book's 300-year cycle of history, both its backdrop and its central character.
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Prestige, contemplative, meticulous and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Adam Thorpe
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 383
- Publisher
- Noonday Pr, Vintage, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374523947
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