Lucifer Before Sunrise
Author | : Henry Williamson |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2011-06-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571279708 |
ISBN-13 | : 0571279708 |
Rating | : 4/5 (708 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lucifer Before Sunrise written by Henry Williamson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Beginning in the winter of 1940/1 and ending with the uneasy 'sunrise' of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving idealistically to hold a balance while lamenting the division and possible total ruin of Europe, as he copes with the day-to-day problems of running the East Anglian farm he has wrested from virtual wilderness. The pattern of everyday living in those years is lovingly evoked: the bomber-haunted nights, the petty profiteering and gossip of country life - all essential, but often unrecorded, elements of the wartime scene. 'The sequence will stand, at the end, as a massive emotional record.' Guardian