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Haweswater (P.S.)
by Sarah Hall
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
The village of Marsdale is a quiet corner of the world, cradled in a remote dale in England's lovely Lake District. The rhythm of life in the deeply religious, sheltered community has not changed for centuries. But in 1936, when Waterworks representative Jack Ligget from industrial Manchester arrives with plans to build a new reservoir, he brings the much feared threat of impending change to this bucolic hamlet. And when he begins an intense and troubled affair with Janet Lightburn — a devout local woman of rare passion and strength of spirit — it can only lead to scandal, tragedy, and remarkable, desperate acts.
From Sarah Hall, the internationally acclaimed author of the Man Booker Prize finalist The Electric Michelangelo, comes a stunning and transcendent novel of love, obsession, and the passing of an age.
Review:
"Mardale, the remote British hamlet where Hall's remarkable debut novel is set, is a close-knit community of tenant farmers 'where grand events and theatrical schemes rarely take place.' So when a handsome stranger arrives in 1936, suspicions run high among the hardworking villagers. Jack Liggett is up-front about his plans for Mardale: he has come to inform the villagers that their homes would soon be at the bottom of a massive reservoir. According to Liggett, the dam associated with the project will be a 'wonderful piece of architecture and engineering.' But the villagers, who view the project as 'so strange and vast that at first it was not taken seriously,' resist, setting off a losing struggle between the insular community and the modern world. Caught in the middle is Janet Lightburn, the daughter of a local farmer, who begins a tempestuous and tragic romance with Jack. A Booker Prize finalist for her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, (published in the U.S. in 2005), Hall is a talented writer, and though U.S. readers may have trouble with the phonetically rendered dialogue ('Twa Pund. Eh? Yan more ootstanding' '), the story, with its undertones of loss and grief, tugs at the heart." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:
"Book lovers haunting the moors of literary fiction in search of another tryst as stirring as 'Wuthering Heights' should embrace Sarah Hall's first novel, 'Haweswater.' Although the book's tardy, modest arrival in the United States (four years after it first appeared in England, and now only in paperback) probably condemns it to obscurity here, this young writer has enjoyed extraordinary success in... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)
Review:
"Sharing thematic parallels with...Lady Chatterley's Lover, Commonwealth Award-winning Hall's outstanding debut novel is beautifully rendered and offers rich meditations on nature, community, passion, and love." Booklist
Review:
"Hall paints her scenes in dark, symbolic, sometimes overwrought prose, straining for mythic overtones....A portentous debut, but this winner of the Commonwealth Best First Novel Award is proof of a literary talent with more to come." Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Sarah Hall divides her time between the north of England and North Carolina.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060817251
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial
- Author:
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Country life
- Subject:
- Westmorland (England)
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Edition Description:
- Harper Perennia Paperback
- Series:
- P.S.
- Publication Date:
- October 2006
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 267
- Dimensions:
- 8.06x5.34x.73 in. .52 lbs.
