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A Month in the Country is the fifth novel by J. L. Carr, first published in 1980 and nominated for the Booker Prize. The book won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1980.
Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
Sep 14, 2021 · Near the very end of J. L. Carr’s exquisite short novel A Month in the Country, Moon finds the missing 400-year-old grave where, all along, he knew it would be. It is summer, 1920, and, as Tom Birkin watches, Moon has been digging into the North.
Oct 31, 2000 · 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.
- J.L. Carr, Michael Holroyd
A Month in the Country (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – 3 Feb. 2000. A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting.
- J L Carr
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.
Nov 4, 2014 · A Month in the Country Kindle Edition. by J. L. Carr (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.4 3,999 ratings. See all formats and editions. This great story explores themes of England's loss of spirituality after the war, and of happiness, melancholy, as the protagonist Birkin recalls healing from wartime experiences and a broken marriage. Print length.
- J. L. Carr
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...
Aug 29, 2012 · A Month in the Country. J.L. Carr. New York Review of Books, Aug 29, 2012 - Fiction - 160 pages. A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully...
Adapted into a film starring Colin Firth, Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh, A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War. With an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald.
