Description
Product ID: | 9780330445672 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Harvest |
Authors: | Author: Jim Crace |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Jim Crace's biggest novel since Being Dead draws once more on his genius with landscape and myth, to create a lost and bewitching English world. <p><b>Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award<br>Winner of the 2014 James Tait Black Prize</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize<br>Shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction</b><br><br>As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft.<br><br>But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .</p> |
Imprint Name: | Picador |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-02-13 |