Josh Lawton |
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| Author:
| Bragg, Melvyn |
| ISBN: | 978-0-340-57465-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1992 |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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JOSH LAWTON charts the rites of passage of a young Cumbrian who falls in love, marries, fathers a child and is then betrayed - a betrayal that is both inevitable and shocking. Moving with deftness from scene to scene and character to character the novel ends in a tragedy that becomes both a warning against simplicity and a cry for its presence in everything. And throughout, one of the strongest characters remains the landscape against which the drama is played out - the Cumberland that...
More DescriptionJOSH LAWTON charts the rites of passage of a young Cumbrian who falls in love, marries, fathers a child and is then betrayed - a betrayal that is both inevitable and shocking. Moving with deftness from scene to scene and character to character the novel ends in a tragedy that becomes both a warning against simplicity and a cry for its presence in everything. And throughout, one of the strongest characters remains the landscape against which the drama is played out - the Cumberland that Melvyn Bragg knows so well and describes so evocatively.