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Joseph Lloyd Carr (20 May 1912 – 26 February 1994), who called himself "Jim" or "James", was an English novelist, publisher, teacher and eccentric. Biography. A literary map of Yorkshire by Carr. Carr was born in Carlton Miniott in the North Riding of Yorkshire, next to Thirsk railway station, into a Wesleyan Methodist family.
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Feb 19, 2024 · Carr, who died 30 years ago this month, at the age of 81, is best known for A Month in the Country, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1980 and was later made into a film starring a fresh-faced Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh (in his first film role).
Feb 26, 1994 · About J.L. Carr: Carr was born in Thirsk Junction, Carlton Miniott, Yorkshire, into a Wesleyan Methodist family. His father Joseph, the eleventh son of a...
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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.
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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. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day ...
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J.L. Carr has 24 books on Goodreads with 63608 ratings. J.L. Carr’s most popular book is A Month in the Country.
Jan 1, 1983 · A Month in the Country. Hardcover – January 1, 1983. Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920.
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