Gathering the Water

Informationen zum Autor Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (James Tait Black Prize winner 1986), A New Ice Age (runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize 1986), The Book of the Heathen (winner of the WH Smith LIterary Award 2000), Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002), Gathering the Water (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and In Zodiac Light ( shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010). His most recent novel is Sanctuary . He lives in Yorkshire. Klappentext It is 1847! northern England! and Charles Weightman has been given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants. Zusammenfassung It is 1847, northern England, and Charles Weightman has been given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Edric
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2007
• EAN: 9780552999748
• ISBN: 978-0-552-99974-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary