The Girl Green As Elderflower
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A hauntingly lyrical work of literary fiction, The Girl Green As Elderflower chronicles the quiet, dreamlike recovery of a young man named Crispin Clare, who retreats to the Suffolk countryside to heal from a mysterious illness. Stow weaves together the ancient and the contemporary, drawing on medieval legends of the Green Children of Woolpit to blur the boundaries between myth, landscape, and psychological reality. The novel presents a world where the natural environment is not merely a backdrop but a living, breathing presence that shapes and mirrors the inner life of its protagonist. Written with spare, poetic precision, the narrative instructs the reader to slow down and attend to the uncanny beauty lurking beneath the surface of the ordinary. The result is a deeply atmospheric and meditative work that stands as one of the most quietly extraordinary novels in twentieth-century Australian and British literature.
Author: Randolph Stow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, The Viking Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A hauntingly lyrical work of literary fiction, The Girl Green As Elderflower chronicles the quiet, dreamlike recovery of a young man named Crispin Clare, who retreats to the Suffolk countryside to heal from a mysterious illness. Stow weaves together the ancient and the contemporary, drawing on medieval legends of the Green Children of Woolpit to blur the boundaries between myth, landscape, and psychological reality. The novel presents a world where the natural environment is not merely a backdrop but a living, breathing presence that shapes and mirrors the inner life of its protagonist. Written with spare, poetic precision, the narrative instructs the reader to slow down and attend to the uncanny beauty lurking beneath the surface of the ordinary. The result is a deeply atmospheric and meditative work that stands as one of the most quietly extraordinary novels in twentieth-century Australian and British literature.