Ebook {Epub PDF} A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

JAMES LLOYD CARR. James Lloyd Carr's 'A month in the country' is a surprisingly refreshing tale of a young shock shelled war veteran who arrives in Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a medieval mural in the local church. The 14th century mural was hidden beneath layers of paint and is used to symbolize the hidden real self of the protagonist. J. L. Carr's novel, A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, first published in , has quietly become a modern classic. At less than pages, it is indeed a small gem filled with gentle, redemptive moments and a quirky humor that sneaks up on you/5().  · Book review: “A Month in the Country” by J. L. Carr. Septem Patrick T Reardon 0. Near the very end of J. L. Carr’s exquisite short novel A Month in the Country, Moon finds the missing year-old grave where, all along, he knew it would be. It is summer, , and, as Tom Birkin watches, Moon has been digging into the North Yorkshire turf of Oxgodby for several hours, taking his .

26 February () (aged 81) Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. Notable work. A Month in the Country. Spouse. Sally Sexton. Joseph Lloyd Carr (- 26 February ), who called himself "Jim" or "James", was an English novelist, publisher, teacher and eccentric. After a lifetime of teaching English literature, I have accumulated a private and rather eclectic pantheon of great (mainly modern) novels, in which J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country holds a central place. Carr finished it in , and it was published in by the Harvester Press, and then by Penguin in paperback. Stanford's Another Look book club reborn with J.L. Carr's. A Month in the Country. The author next to a quince tree, (Photo courtesy Bob Carr) The British novelist J.L. Carr had an implacable side. "Once he started something, he never let it drop," his son recalled. One example: Carr, a primary school headmaster, was wandering.

A Month in the Country by JL Carr – review. JL Carr’s Booker-shortlisted short book about a first world war veteran recovering in rural Yorkshire has melancholic pastoral appeal, writes. A Month in the Country is the fifth novel by J. L. Carr, first published in and nominated for the Booker Prize. The book won the Guardian Fiction Prize in A Month in the Country. 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.