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The Horseman
Tim Pears
其他書名
The West Country Trilogy
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2017-02-28
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / War & Military
Pets / Horses
ISBN
1632866951
9781632866950
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qWbgDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"A wonderful novel. . . Tim Pears combines a down-to-earth rendering of the realities of rural life with a magical sense of another world beyond our everyday experience."--
Wall Street Journal
From acclaimed author Tim Pears, the first novel in a sweeping historical trilogy, beginning in rural, pre-WWI England.
Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Albert Sercombe is a farmer on Lord Prideaux's estate and his eldest son, Sid, is underkeeper to the head gamekeeper. His son, Leo, a talented rider, grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter, Charlotte--a girl who shoots and rides, much to the surprise of the locals. In beautiful, pastoral writing,
The Horseman
tells the story of a family, a community, and the landscape they come from.
The Horseman
is a return to the world invoked in Pears' first award-winning, extravagantly praised novel,
In the Place of Fallen Leaves
. It is the first book of a trilogy that will follow Leo away from the estate and into the First World War and beyond. Exquisitely, tenderly written, this is immersive, transporting historical fiction at its finest.