South
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
William Sansom's South is a captivating work of mid-twentieth-century fiction that transports the reader into sun-drenched landscapes where desire, displacement, and the weight of human longing collide in unforgettable ways. Set against the vivid, sensory backdrop of southern Europe, the novel chronicles the inner and outer journeys of its protagonists, immersing them — and the reader — in an atmosphere thick with heat, ambiguity, and yearning. Sansom, one of Britain's most distinctive post-war prose stylists, is celebrated for his richly textured, almost painterly writing that renders the physical world with extraordinary precision and emotional resonance. Deeply influenced by European Modernism, his work sits comfortably alongside that of Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett, offering readers a fiction that is simultaneously lyrical and psychologically acute. South stands as a testament to Sansom's singular gift for capturing the restless undercurrents of ordinary lives — leaving the reader to wonder where the landscape ends and the soul begins.
Author: William Sansom
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
William Sansom's South is a captivating work of mid-twentieth-century fiction that transports the reader into sun-drenched landscapes where desire, displacement, and the weight of human longing collide in unforgettable ways. Set against the vivid, sensory backdrop of southern Europe, the novel chronicles the inner and outer journeys of its protagonists, immersing them — and the reader — in an atmosphere thick with heat, ambiguity, and yearning. Sansom, one of Britain's most distinctive post-war prose stylists, is celebrated for his richly textured, almost painterly writing that renders the physical world with extraordinary precision and emotional resonance. Deeply influenced by European Modernism, his work sits comfortably alongside that of Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett, offering readers a fiction that is simultaneously lyrical and psychologically acute. South stands as a testament to Sansom's singular gift for capturing the restless undercurrents of ordinary lives — leaving the reader to wonder where the landscape ends and the soul begins.