Judgement Day
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A sharp and quietly unsettling work of modern British fiction, Judgement Day is set in a quiet English village where the arrival of a new resident begins to stir the community's latent tensions and moral contradictions. Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger, masterfully chronicles the collision between ordinary suburban life and larger questions of sin, guilt, and reckoning. The novel's tone is precise and darkly comic, drawing on the imagery of a medieval church restoration project to hold a mirror up to its inhabitants' private hypocrisies. With characteristic elegance, Lively illustrates how the weight of history — sacred and secular alike — presses silently upon the present, culminating in a shocking act of violence that forces the village to confront itself. Praised by Auberon Waugh as beautiful and brilliant, this is a morally rich and deeply intelligent novel from one of England's most celebrated writers.
Author: Penelope Lively
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A sharp and quietly unsettling work of modern British fiction, Judgement Day is set in a quiet English village where the arrival of a new resident begins to stir the community's latent tensions and moral contradictions. Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger, masterfully chronicles the collision between ordinary suburban life and larger questions of sin, guilt, and reckoning. The novel's tone is precise and darkly comic, drawing on the imagery of a medieval church restoration project to hold a mirror up to its inhabitants' private hypocrisies. With characteristic elegance, Lively illustrates how the weight of history — sacred and secular alike — presses silently upon the present, culminating in a shocking act of violence that forces the village to confront itself. Praised by Auberon Waugh as beautiful and brilliant, this is a morally rich and deeply intelligent novel from one of England's most celebrated writers.