Sarum: The Novel of England
by Edward Rutherfurd | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0804102988 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0804102988 Global Overview for this book
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A first novel, Rutherfurd's sweeping saga of the area surrounding Stonehenge and Salisbury, England, covers 10,000 years and includes many generations of five families. Each family has one or more characteristic types who appear in successive centuries: the round-headed balding man who is good with his hands; the blue-eyed blonde woman who insists on having her independence; the dark, narrow-faced fisher of river waters and secrets. Their fortunes rise and fall both economically and politically, but the land triumphs over the passage of time and the ravages of humans. Rutherfurd has told the story of the land he was born in and has told it well. The verbosity of a Michener is missing, but all the other elements are present, from geology and archaeology to a rich story of human life.
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**I've read this one before - excellent, excellent book!!!
**I've read this one before - excellent, excellent book!!!
Journal Entry 3 by CdnBlueRose at Family Health Care Center, 63rd Place in Arvada, Colorado USA on Monday, March 19, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (3/19/2007 UTC) at Family Health Care Center, 63rd Place in Arvada, Colorado USA
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In doctor's waiting room at Family Healthcare.
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