A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

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A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.  

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, 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.

REVIEWS

"Tender and elegant." ― Guardian

"Unlike anything else in modern English Literature." - ― Spectator

"Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting." ― New Yorker

"Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past." - Penelope Fitzgerald

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback 
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978-0241972038
Pages: 112