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'Along with Wolf Solent , A Glastonbury Romance and Maiden Castle , this modern classic, originally published in 1934, forms the quartet that 'are just about the only novels produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky - George Steiner, The New Yorker'. Drawing on his vivid childhood memories of the seaside town of Weymouth, Powys tells the story of Jobber Skald - a large, somewhat brutish man, obsessed with the urge to kill the local magnate of the town because of the man's contempt for the workers of the local quarry - and his redeeming love for Perdita Wane, a young girl from the Channel Islands. Weymouth Sands boasts a striking collection of human oddities, including a famous clown and his mad brother, a naive Latin teacher, a young philosopher, and an abortionist. Against the mysterious and haunting background of the sea, the sands, and the stones of Dorset coast, Powys weaves together his characters' ever-fascinating patterns of behaviour into an epic tale which depicts the power of Eros, the inscrutability of the universe, and the nature of madness, while highlightling Powys' deep sympathy for the variety, eccentricity, and essential loneliness of human beings.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuckworth Overlook
ISBN-139780715638750
eBay Product ID (ePID)86533706
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Publication Year2009
TopicBooks
Book TitleWeymouth Sands
Number of Pages590 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJohn Cowper Powys
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height203 mm
Item Width141 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJohn Cowper Powys
