Harvest
Registered by catsalive of Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on 3/5/2016
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
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As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders and puts up a make-shift camp. The same night, the local manor house is set on fire.
Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the new arrivals cruelly punished, and his neighbours held captive on suspicion of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of his story, and he will be the only man left to tell it...
In Jim Crace's hypnotic prose, Harvest evokes the tragedy of land pillaged and communities scattered, as England's fields are irrevocably enclosed. Timeless yet singular, mythical yet deeply personal, this beautiful novel of one man and his unnamed village speaks for a way of life lost for ever.
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders and puts up a make-shift camp. The same night, the local manor house is set on fire.
Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the new arrivals cruelly punished, and his neighbours held captive on suspicion of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of his story, and he will be the only man left to tell it...
In Jim Crace's hypnotic prose, Harvest evokes the tragedy of land pillaged and communities scattered, as England's fields are irrevocably enclosed. Timeless yet singular, mythical yet deeply personal, this beautiful novel of one man and his unnamed village speaks for a way of life lost for ever.
Nicely written, with an odd, eerie, lyrical quality, about the 18th-century enclosures in England. Jordan, the landowner, got his way quite easily - the witchcraft excuse fell in nicely with his plans. One can't help wondering if the "Beldams" were there at his instigation.
Journal Entry 3 by catsalive at Southern Crossers, Donation -- Controlled Releases on Friday, March 11, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (3/11/2016 UTC) at Southern Crossers, Donation -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
A wish sent to Billbooks for the April 2016 Southern Cross BE.
A wishlist book that was sent to me as part of the SCBE. I have read two other books by this author Quarantine and Being Dead and I am still unsure what I think his works so I shall give a third one a try.
Journal Entry 5 by Billbooks at Queen Street Rescue in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Saturday, August 27, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (8/28/2016 UTC) at Queen Street Rescue in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Being released as part of the great downsizing cull of 2016
Caught at QSR meetup
Caught at QSR meetup
Didn't get into this book and found it very low key and a bit boring and illogically set. - perhaps I've missed something? It's about a remote, pre-industrial English village and the estate upon which it depends, is disrupted by a number of events that include three mysterious squatters who come into conflict with both the 60 people who call the village home, and the ruling authorities of the estate
Journal Entry 9 by genrek at Degani in Templestowe, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, January 11, 2017
On to the shelves.