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Oldies made the best holiday companions
This article is taken from the August/September 2022 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. On the penetrating question of what fiction to take on holiday, this year The Critic offers a novel approach.
Author of the Month: J.L. Carr
J.L. Carr (1912-1994), our Author of the Month for January, worked most of his life as a teacher and headmaster in Kettering, from where he also ran the Quince Tree Press. His novels appeared sporadically, from small publishing houses, to little fanfare (although A Month in the Country and The Battle of Pollock’s Crossing were nominated for the Booker Prize).
A Month In The Country by J. L. Carr
Penguin Essentials J. L. Carr J.L. Carr Buy from… One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L.
A Month in the Country
Praise Unlike anything else in modern English Literature. — The Spectator Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting. — The New Yorker It's perfect, and sometimes I think I'll spend the rest of my life wondering how it's done.
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