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Unclay - Paperback

by T. F. Powys
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:T. F. PowysPublish date:2018-11-27Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811228190ISBN-10:811228193UPC:9780811228190Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Absurdist, Literary, NoirSize:7.20 x 4.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCNHE7B380

New Directions is proud to present one of the most spellbinding novels you will read this year, and certainly the weirdest.

First published in 1931, Unclay glows with an unworldly light--Death has come to the small village of Dodder to deliver a parchment with the names of two local mortals and the fatal word unclay upon it. When he loses the precious sheet, he is at a loss, and also free of his errand. Hungry to taste the sweet fruits of human life, Mr. John Death, as he is now known, takes a holiday in Dorsetshire and rests from his reaping. The village teems with the old virtues (love, kindness, patience) and the old sins (lust, avarice, greed). What unfolds is a witty, earthy, metaphysical, and delicious novel of enormous moral force and astonishing beauty.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811228190ISBN-10:811228193UPC:9780811228190Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Absurdist, Literary, NoirSize:7.20 x 4.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCNHE7B380
Powys, T. F.: - T. F. Powys (1875-1953), a novelist and short-story writer, belonged to one of the most remarkable literary families (his brothers include John Cowper Powys and Llewelyn Powys). He was a man who rarely left home or traveled by car, who claimed to love monotony, and who "never gave so much as a sunflower-seed for the busy, practical life."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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