The Quickening Maze
by Adam Foulds | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0224087460 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0224087460 Global Overview for this book
Registered by chitza of Liedekerke, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on 1/6/2016
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by chitza from Liedekerke, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Hooray! You found a book! And you were so nice to take it with you on a trip.
What is the intention?
* That you report your catch here on the website, so that those who have registered the book know that it's in good hands
* If you want you can do this anonymously
* You are invited the read it if you feel like it.
* Let us know how you found it
* And hopefully you leave the book afterwards somewhere for the next finder
If we all work together we make sure that each book gets what it deserves:
:-) to be read :-)
What is the intention?
* That you report your catch here on the website, so that those who have registered the book know that it's in good hands
* If you want you can do this anonymously
* You are invited the read it if you feel like it.
* Let us know how you found it
* And hopefully you leave the book afterwards somewhere for the next finder
If we all work together we make sure that each book gets what it deserves:
:-) to be read :-)
Journal Entry 2 by chitza at Liedekerke, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on Wednesday, January 6, 2016
http://themanbookerprize.com/books/quickening-maze
The Quickening Maze is based on real events and is set in and around the High Beach Asylum in 1840. The asylum, built within Epping Forest, is a place of disorder and unpredictable dramas.
Foulds’ compelling tale centres on the life of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Asylum. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life and catastrophic schemes of the asylum’s owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr Matthew Allen.
Historically accurate, but brilliantly imagined, the closed world of High Beach and its various inmates - the doctor, his lonely daughter in love with Tennyson, the brutish staff and John Clare himself - are brought vividly to life. Foulds also exquisitely depicts life outside the walls; Nature and Clare’s paradise -the birds and animals, the gypsies living in the forest; his dream of home, of redemption, of escape.
The Quickening Maze is a deeply affecting book and work of intense and atmospheric imagination.
The Quickening Maze is based on real events and is set in and around the High Beach Asylum in 1840. The asylum, built within Epping Forest, is a place of disorder and unpredictable dramas.
Foulds’ compelling tale centres on the life of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Asylum. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life and catastrophic schemes of the asylum’s owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr Matthew Allen.
Historically accurate, but brilliantly imagined, the closed world of High Beach and its various inmates - the doctor, his lonely daughter in love with Tennyson, the brutish staff and John Clare himself - are brought vividly to life. Foulds also exquisitely depicts life outside the walls; Nature and Clare’s paradise -the birds and animals, the gypsies living in the forest; his dream of home, of redemption, of escape.
The Quickening Maze is a deeply affecting book and work of intense and atmospheric imagination.
Journal Entry 3 by chitza at Eetcafé Bed & Breakfast Edelweiss in Turnhout, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Saturday, April 2, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (4/3/2016 UTC) at Eetcafé Bed & Breakfast Edelweiss in Turnhout, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Gaat mee naar de meeting te Turnhout.
Hopelijk vindt het boek daar een nieuwe lezer,
Hopelijk vindt het boek daar een nieuwe lezer,
I love the cover, I love English books, I love former library books, I love hardcovers ...
So I just could not resist this one, which has it all ... :)
Thanks for bringing this book, for a nice meeting in the sun, for apple pie with ice cream, for lazy sundays and for books !
It was very nice meeting you !
So I just could not resist this one, which has it all ... :)
Thanks for bringing this book, for a nice meeting in the sun, for apple pie with ice cream, for lazy sundays and for books !
It was very nice meeting you !
got an extra copy by accident :-)))
Journal Entry 6 by bloedengel at Vorselaar, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Thursday, September 1, 2016
happy travels !
Thanks, Bloedengel!
Soon on its way...
Soon on its way...
Journal Entry 8 by 
Kafka1954
at Zwerfboekenrek station Mol in Mol, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Saturday, August 26, 2017
Kafka1954 at Zwerfboekenrek station Mol in Mol, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Saturday, August 26, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (8/26/2017 UTC) at Zwerfboekenrek station Mol in Mol, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Bye, book!
Go and make some new friends...
