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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
2000.
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Carr, J. L. |q (Joseph Lloyd), |d 1912-1994. | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A month in the country / |c J.L. Carr ; introduction by Michael Holroyd. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b New York Review Books, |c 2000. | ||
| 300 | |a xxii, 135 pages ; |c 21 cm. | ||
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| 520 | |a "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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Mural painting and decoration, Medieval |x Conservation and restoration |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1914-1918 |x Veterans |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Art restorers |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Villages |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a North Riding of Yorkshire (England) |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Psychological fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Holroyd, Michael. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a New York Review Books classics. | |
| 949 | |a schlow |b SAPABR |c Carr |d o |e 39635104789180 |f 805040 |g loc |j 09/17/2025 | ||
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