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... J.L. Comment Report abuse. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Carr was born in Thirsk Junction, Carlton Miniott, Yorkshire, into a Wesleyan Methodist family. Before we turn over that first page, it is all as blank as a whitewashed wall.

The moment with Alice at the belfry window shows how far he has come; heart-strong enough to love again but head-steady enough not to pitch thoughtlessly in. A Month in the Country, written by J.L. Tom Birkin is a WW1 veteran who was injured at Paschendaele and is troubled by his memories and dreams and by a failed marraige. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. And please note, yes I did put down Joseph and not James as Penelope Fitzgerald has done in her introduction to this. ( Log Out /  When he arrives in Oxgodby, Birkin knows very well life is not all ease and intimacy, long summer days with "winter always loitering around the corner."

But where that novel was elliptical, Carr's work values clarity and simplicity above all. Carr's prose is beautifully understated and finely nuanced, the voice of his narrator is perfectly and consistently pitched. What can I say, I am a city girl. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2017. My favorite novel. His wife has left him and he is forever reminded of how the war has changed him. When we pick up a book by an author we haven’t read before, we have only the vaguest notion of what themes it will contain. His books include A Season in Sinji, The Harpole Report, What Hetty Did, A Month in the Country and The Battle of Pollocks Crossing. I particularly loved the language used to describe the painting, and Tom’s connection to the original creator of the artwork. "'What about hell on earth?' ( Log Out / 

It's the most moving fiction I've ever read. His time at Oxgodby provides the opportunity to reflect and look afresh on his future.

Actually, three stars is the highest rating I gave to a novel about country life. There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Using stunning prose combined with well developed characters, Carr's novella is perfect for a leisurely summer morning. — Eve Claxton, Time Out New York. A 22 year old passionate about books, theatre and art…I rather enjoy sleeping too. Instead the narrator is a bantering almost Jack-the laddish character who refers to his backside as his bum and imagines the vicar and his wife having sex. The novel is compact and succinct, but within it is a beautiful documentation of an important moment within a veteran’s life.

— The 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. Carr's small gem of a novel was first published in 1980. Echoes of Laurie Lee, HE Bates and Larkin, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2016. Many of the incidents in the novel are based on real events in Carr's own life, and some of the characters are modelled on his own Methodist family. "Carr's...small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist..." Healing Word Pictures for the Modern Soul, Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2015. We may bring expectations to the blank piece of wall, expectations based on the period the book is set in or from the opinions of readers we trust, but any clarity on the book’s contents will remain largely hidden. A Month In The Country was my second choice for the The Mookse and the Gripes group revisit of the 1980 Booker shortlist. I told her I'd seen it and lived there and that, mercifully, they usually left an exit open." Delicate, evocative. Winter always loitering around the corner. Moments of cowardice, of hesitation, moments when our courage fail us: to make a small step, to take a big leap, to dance, or move our lips a few inches to those of another. Thanks to NYRB classics for bringing this back. It is here, however, that Birkin, though alone with only an interpretation of the world's end for company, learns to live again. Tom Birkin is a WW1 veteran who was injured at Paschendaele and is troubled by his memories and dreams and by a failed marraige.

Carr's great art is to make it clear that joy is inseparable from the pain and oblivion which unmake it. …The nuance and small moments that make up this gorgeous little novella are breathtaking, and the quiet, spare story will completely invade you. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Summer 1920.

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