Woodbrook

Author: Thomson, David

Brand: VINTAGE

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 336

Release Date: 27-02-1994

Part Number: 9780099359913

Details:

Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a tutor. He stayed for ten years.

This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil. In it he builds up a delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. Above all, his story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love and with the desolation of bereavement.

EAN: 9780099359913

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English