TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Jeremy
TI  - Ash before oak
SN  - 9781910695890
AV  - PR6053.O566 A85 2019
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Fitzcarraldo Editions
KW  - Neurasthenia
KW  - Patients
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Country life
KW  - Somerset
KW  - Somerset (England)
KW  - New Zealand
N2  - "Written in the form of a journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's subsequent recovery through his re-engagement with the world around him, including a vist to his sister in New Zealand. The title derives from an old country rhyme forecasting rain. Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful, Jeremy Cooper's first novel in over a decade is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life."--Publisher
ER  -