9780393313161

Testimonies

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ISBN13: 9780393313161

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Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself." Schwartz' imagination was fired by this sinister tale of love and death set in Wales, a timeless story with echoes of Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.



Joseph Pugh, sick of Oxford and of teaching, decides to take some time off to live in a wild and beautiful Welsh farm valley. There he falls physically ill and is nursed back to health by Bronwen Vaughn, the wife of a neighboring farmer. Slowly, unwillingly, Bronwen and Pugh fall in love;' and while that word is never spoken between them, their story is as passionate and as tragic as that of Vronsky and Anna Karenina.


ISBN-13

9780393313161

ISBN-10

0393313166

Weight

0.46 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.60 x 8.30 In

List Price

$20.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

224 pages

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published On

1995-07-17



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