The Shepherd's Life
A Tale of the Lake District
(Sprache: Englisch)
The no.1 "Sunday Times" bestselling phenomenon, now in paperback. In evocative prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost. The...
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The no.1 "Sunday Times" bestselling phenomenon, now in paperback. In evocative prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost. The hardback has sold 40,000 copies, and this release will be supported by a massive marketing and publicity campaign.
Autoren-Porträt von James Rebanks
James Rebanks is a farmer based in the Lake District, where his family have lived and worked for over six hundred years. His No.1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd's Life, won the Lake District Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Ondaatje prizes, and has been translated into sixteen languages. His second book, English Pastoral, was also a Top Ten bestseller and was named the Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year. Heralded as a 'masterpiece' by the New Statesman, it was shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize, and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Rebanks
- 2016, 320 Seiten, Masse: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141979364
- ISBN-13: 9780141979366
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.02.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Two pages into The Shepherd's Life, I was gripped. Twenty pages in, I was amazed. By its end, I knew I'd read an extraordinary book, at once political and beautiful - a major addition to the modern British literature of landscape, that can stand alongside Ronald Blythe's classic Akenfield as a portrait of a place and its people as seen from within Robert Macfarlane
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