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A month in the country

"Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summers, and laboring each day to uncover...

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Main Author: Carr, J. L. (Joseph Lloyd), 1912-1994
Other Authors: Holroyd, Michael
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, 2000.
Series:New York Review Books classics.
Subjects:
Mural painting and decoration, Medieval > Conservation and restoration > Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Fiction.
Art restorers > Fiction.
Villages > Fiction.
North Riding of Yorkshire (England) > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:"Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summers, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's extraordinary depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life."--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:xxii, 135 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:0940322471
9780940322479
Author Notes:James Lloyd Carr was born in 1912 and attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in Yorkshire. A head teacher, publisher, and novelist, his books includenbsp; A Day in Summer nbsp;(1964);nbsp; A Season in Sinji nbsp;(1967);nbsp; The Harpole Report nbsp;(1972);nbsp; How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup nbsp;(1975);nbsp; A Month in the Country nbsp;(1980), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize;nbsp; The Battle of Pollock's Crossing (1985) , also shortlisted for the the Booker Prize;nbsp; What Hetty Did (1988); andnbsp; Harpolenbsp; Foxberrow General Publishers nbsp;(1992). He died in Northhamptonshire in 1994.

Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of Lytton Strachey, Bernard Shaw, and Augustus John. He has also written a memoir,nbsp; Basil Street Blues . He lives in London with his wife, the writer Margaret Drabble.

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