Akenfield:Portrait of an English Village - and 35 similar items

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe, Paperback Very good condition. Gently read copy with lightly creased spine. Pages are tanned. No markings. No creases. From the Publisher: In this rich, rare book--which John Updike called "exquisite"--forty-nine men and women--from a blacksmith and a bellringer to the local vet and a gravedigger--speak to us directly, in honest and evocative monologues, of their works and days in the rural country of Suffolk. Composed in the late 1960's Blythe's volume paints a vivd picture of a community in which the vast changes of the twentieth century are matched by deep continuities of history, tradition, and nature.