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Rent Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jul 2015
Genre: History - Europe - Great Britain
Retail Price: $22.95
Pages: 312
Synopsis
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe's wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.