{"product_id":"a-month-in-the-country-isbn-9780940322479","title":"A Month in the Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War  and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he  is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in  the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring  each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds  that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But  summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects  on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation  for all that has been lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Unlike anything else in modern English Literature.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carr’s blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Amazingly beautiful: so perfect, so exquisite! …The nuance and small moments that make up this gorgeous little novella are breathtaking, and the quiet, spare story will completely invade you. Brilliant!” —Dianah H, Powell’s City of Books blog  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past.\" — Penelope Fitzgerald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The work is virtually perfect, and written with a great deal of liveliness and wit.\" —Michael Wood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A unique and special experience, a visit to a special time and place, deeply observed and portrayed in beautiful prose.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carr’s prose is spare, elegant and buoyed with wit; the idyllic countryside and its inhabitants are rendered in affectionate detail.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublisher’s Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Month in the Country\u003c\/i\u003e…is one of those perfect, precious novels that you want to loan to friends, buy all your relatives for Christmas and give to your latest paramour.\" — Eve Claxton, \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Lloyd Carr was born in 1912 and attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in Yorkshire. A head teacher, publisher, and novelist, his books include \u003ci\u003eA Day in Summer\u003c\/i\u003e (1964); \u003ci\u003eA Season in Sinji\u003c\/i\u003e (1967); \u003ci\u003eThe Harpole Report\u003c\/i\u003e (1972); \u003ci\u003eHow Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup\u003c\/i\u003e (1975); \u003ci\u003eA Month in the Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Pollock’s Crossing (1985)\u003c\/i\u003e, also shortlisted for the the Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eWhat Hetty Did\u003c\/i\u003e(1988); and \u003ci\u003eHarpole \u0026amp; Foxberrow General Publishers\u003c\/i\u003e (1992). He died in Northhamptonshire in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of Lytton Strachey, Bernard Shaw, and Augustus John. He has also written a memoir, \u003ci\u003eBasil Street Blues\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London with his wife, the writer Margaret Drabble.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300457140453,"sku":"NP9780940322479","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322479.jpg?v=1767720654","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-month-in-the-country-isbn-9780940322479","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}