A Book of Childhood (2011)

A Book of Childhood (2011)

2011
284 pages
Fiction

During a heatwave in the height of the haymaking season close to the Arctic Circle, a future poet and man of the world is born. In the lap of the region and its encircling mountains he experiences the world on his own terms, he learns the points of the compass and how to decline irregular English verbs, he faces a life-threatening situation, he has a hernia, and he takes up writing. In

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“The novel achieves almost a musical quality and resounds in the mind of the reader long after the final page.”

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