August

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Description

Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans’s first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. Aldous has started to feel that a certain symbiosis has developed between their North London home and the Welsh village that they only ever see in August. As the years pass, Aldous’s family idyll starts to disintegrate and the farm becomes a place drenched in memory.

Additional information

Weight 0.22 kg
Dimensions 2 × 13 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

320

Publisher

Year Published

2002-8-1

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099286920

About The Author

Gerard is the author of an acclaimed sequence of novels, August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I'll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize) and A Curious Earth. He was born in London in 1961, and published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. His latest collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians was shortlisted for the 2005 T.S.Eliot Prize. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and lives in Bath with his family.

A striking and impressive work…one of the most original novels of the year

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Simply one of the finest books about the pains and joys of family that I have ever read. The life of the Jones family glows like a barley-sugar window

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