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Item Details
Title:
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DONKEY BOY
PHILLIP MADDISON |
Volume: |
Part 2 |
By: |
Henry Williamson |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£15.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571271081 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571271085 |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
17 June, 2010 |
Edition: |
Main |
Series: |
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight |
Pages: |
400 |
Description: |
Tells of Richard Maddison's first-born Phillip, nicknamed 'donkey boy' because his life was saved in infancy by being fed with ass' milk. The boy grows up in the Edwardian era, something of a misfit, at odds with his father. |
Synopsis: |
Donkey Boy (1952) was the second entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It tells of Richard Maddison's first-born Phillip, nicknamed 'donkey boy' because his life was saved in infancy by being fed with ass' milk. The boy grows up in the Edwardian era, something of a misfit, at odds with his father. "With extraordinary skill and precision [Williamson] rebuilds the scenery of the past ...[he] seems to be engaged in a thriller whose instalments can be relied on to animate a whole section of social history". (Spectator). "Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising". (Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939). |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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