Addlands : a novel /
A complex family with a tortured secret, the Hamers live on a large homestead in Radnorshire, Wales. Idris, the unbending patriarch and tyrant of the family, is a man suspicious of any change. Etty, his indomitable wife, is a woman born into a world unequipped to deal with her. Oliver, their only so...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dial Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | A complex family with a tortured secret, the Hamers live on a large homestead in Radnorshire, Wales. Idris, the unbending patriarch and tyrant of the family, is a man suspicious of any change. Etty, his indomitable wife, is a woman born into a world unequipped to deal with her. Oliver, their only son, is a junior boxing champion turned hellraising local legend. A novel concerned both with the huge changes of 20th-century rural life, and that life in its eternal details. |
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| Physical Description: | 319 pages : illustration ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780812998726 0812998723 |