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The Short Day Dying

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter HobbsPublish date:3/20/2006Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780156032414ISBN-10:156032414UPC:9780156032414Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Small Town & Rural, ChristianBook Topic:HistoricalAward:2005 Costa Book Awards Nominee - First Novel Award|2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee - Fiction AwardSize:8.08 x 5.42 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCZ5WYS3DZ
This is the story of four seasons in the life of Charles Wenmoth, a twenty-seven-year-old apprentice blacksmith and Methodist lay preacher in Cornwall in 1870. Life is at its hardest; poverty is everywhere. Charles crosses and recrosses the raw, beautiful landscape, attending to the sick and helping the poor, preaching in chapels with ever-dwindling congregations. He questions his faith along the way but never quite loses it, balancing it with the pleasure he takes in nature, the light in the skies, the colors of the earth, and in his attachment to a girl to whom he is drawn by the piety and patience she maintains despite her long illness.

Inspired by the language of his great-great-grandfather's diaries and the Bible, influenced by authors as diverse as Hardy, Blake, and Faulkner, Peter Hobbs has created a first novel of breathtaking ambition and stylistic innovation, and of enormous emotional power.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780156032414ISBN-10:156032414UPC:9780156032414Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Small Town & Rural, ChristianBook Topic:HistoricalAward:2005 Costa Book Awards Nominee - First Novel Award|2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee - Fiction AwardSize:8.08 x 5.42 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCZ5WYS3DZ
Hobbs, Peter: -

The descendant of Methodist lay preachers, PETER HOBBS lives in London. The Short Day Dying is his first novel.

Publisher: Mariner Books

Awards

🏆 2005 Costa Book Awards Nominee - First Novel Award|2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee - Fiction Award

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Peter Hobbs

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