The Boat in the Evening - Peter Owen Modern Classics
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Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary artist's first-hand experience and observation of rural life-of landscape and people.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780720611984 |
Publisher: | Peter Owen Publishers |
Imprint: | Peter Owen Publishers |
Pub date: | 01 Aug 2003 |
DEWEY: | 839.82372 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 184 |
Weight: | 146g |
Height: | 185mm |
Width: | 124mm |
Spine width: | 13mm |