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DONKEY BOY
PHILLIP MADDISON 2 |
| By: |
Henry Williamson |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571310478 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571310470 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
19 June, 2014 |
| Series: |
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight |
| Description: |
Tells the story of Richard Maddison's first-born son 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 Finds |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |