Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Nineteen Twenty-One, Paperback / softback Book

Nineteen Twenty-One Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July.

Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering.

Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes in the form of two very different women.

A visit to the hallucinatory wreckage of post-war Flanders brings strange repercussions in its wake.

Everyone is in some way damaged by the terrible years of the war; in what sense can art be made out of such horror?

Adam Thorpe's novel seeks to touch the marrow of this jazz and death-haunted period, which was ironically the most excitingly creative period of the last century.

In a language deeply soaked in the time and by means of a beguiling story which gradually haunts its own process, Nineteen Twenty-One vividly recreates the year in which The Waste Land was written, as well as offering a bright mirror to the inner and outer complexities of our own troubled times.

Information

Save 0%

£8.99

£8.95

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information