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Nineteen Twenty-One

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Nineteen Twenty-One
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Adam Thorpe
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780099272984
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication Date 6 June 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes in the form of two very different women. A visit to the hallucinatory wreckage of post-war Flanders brings strange repercussions in its wake. Everyone is in some way damaged by the terrible years of the war; in what sense can art be made out of such horror? Adam Thorpe's novel seeks to touch the marrow of this jazz and death-haunted period, which was ironically the most excitingly creative period of the last century. In a language deeply soaked in the time and by means of a beguiling story which gradually haunts its own process, Nineteen Twenty-One vividly recreates the year in which The Waste Land was written, as well as offering a bright mirror to the inner and outer complexities of our own troubled times.

Author Biography

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net