This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared.
- ISBN10 0394738470
- ISBN13 9780394738475
- Publish Date 12 February 1980
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pantheon Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 318
- Language English