The Short Day Dying

This is the story of four seasons in the life of Charles Wenmoth, a twenty-seven-year-old apprentice blacksmith...
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Author: Peter Hobbs
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The Short Day Dying by Hobbs, Peter

The Short Day Dying

Dhs. 84.02

The Short Day Dying

Dhs. 84.02
Author: Peter Hobbs
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This is the story of four seasons in the life of Charles Wenmoth, a twenty-seven-year-old apprentice blacksmith and Methodist lay preacher in Cornwall in 1870. Life is at its hardest; poverty is everywhere. Charles crosses and recrosses the raw, beautiful landscape, attending to the sick and helping the poor, preaching in chapels with ever-dwindling congregations. He questions his faith along the way but never quite loses it, balancing it with the pleasure he takes in nature, the light in the skies, the colors of the earth, and in his attachment to a girl to whom he is drawn by the piety and patience she maintains despite her long illness.

Inspired by the language of his great-great-grandfather's diaries and the Bible, influenced by authors as diverse as Hardy, Blake, and Faulkner, Peter Hobbs has created a first novel of breathtaking ambition and stylistic innovation, and of enormous emotional power.


Author: Peter Hobbs
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/20/2006
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.42w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780156032414


Award: Costa Book Awards - Nominee
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2005 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2006 pg. 9
Booklist 02/01/2006 pg. 29

About the Author
Hobbs, Peter: - The descendant of Methodist lay preachers, PETER HOBBS lives in London. The Short Day Dying is his first novel.

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