false <![CDATA[A Month in the Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170545151m/60707.jpg 60707 11 In 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. 2825054 1980 A Month in the Country total:243|5:3|4:3|3:2|2:2|1:0| 243 997 361 48 5 3 false false Sun May 27 16:26:02 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 16:26:56 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 08:55:02 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 11:07:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Apr 06 20:06:38 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 06 20:09:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 13:17:11 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 13:19:45 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 10:24:09 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 10:29:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sun Nov 30 19:22:02 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 19:24:03 -0800 2008 1 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 08:28:32 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 08:42:59 -0700 2009 In fact, I can't even remember the last six months, so I had a clean palate when I went to devour this slim book.
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Essentially, a WWI vet trained in art restoration travels to ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 11:26:58 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 14:05:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 20 21:44:20 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 21:54:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 15:19:33 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 11:13:03 -0700 2009 discussion at Woman Who Talked Too Much Benign Book Dictatorship Of Books By Authors Who Talked Too Little Book Club, hosted by Marie Phillips at her blog. Marie is the witty author of Gods Behaving Badly which doesn't mean I always agree wit...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:03:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 13:42:35 -0700 2009
"If I'd stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around ea...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 07:49:39 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 08:10:40 -0700 2009 4 0 true false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 07:32:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 07:35:35 -0700 2009 The prose is languid and wonderful. It captures a bygone era of the English countryside.
And it's short.

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