The Resource Peculiar ground : a novel, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Peculiar ground : a novel, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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The item Peculiar ground : a novel, Lucy Hughes-Hallett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Peculiar ground : a novel, Lucy Hughes-Hallett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders--migrants fleeing the plague--find no mercy. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised, while at Wychwood, an erotic entanglement over one sticky, languorous weekend in 1961 is overshadowed by news of historic change. Young Nell, whose father manages the estate, grows up amid dramatic upheavals as the great house is invaded: a pop festival by the lake, a television crew in the dining room, a Great Storm brewing. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood's walls. Lucy Hughes-Hallett conjures an intricately structured, captivating story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in. With poignancy and grace, she illuminates a place where past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history--and by one patch of peculiar ground." -- Amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xi, 446 pages
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by 4th Estate." -- Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780062684202
- Label
- Peculiar ground : a novel
- Title
- Peculiar ground
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders--migrants fleeing the plague--find no mercy. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised, while at Wychwood, an erotic entanglement over one sticky, languorous weekend in 1961 is overshadowed by news of historic change. Young Nell, whose father manages the estate, grows up amid dramatic upheavals as the great house is invaded: a pop festival by the lake, a television crew in the dining room, a Great Storm brewing. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood's walls. Lucy Hughes-Hallett conjures an intricately structured, captivating story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in. With poignancy and grace, she illuminates a place where past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history--and by one patch of peculiar ground." -- Amazon.com
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hughes-Hallett, Lucy
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6108.U443
- LC item number
- P43 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Manors
- Country homes
- Great Britain
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- Country homes
- Manors
- England
- Great Britain
- Label
- Peculiar ground : a novel, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by 4th Estate." -- Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn983456931
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xi, 446 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062684202
- Lccn
- bl2017047594
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)983456931
- Label
- Peculiar ground : a novel, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by 4th Estate." -- Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn983456931
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xi, 446 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062684202
- Lccn
- bl2017047594
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)983456931
Subject
- England
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- History -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Country homes
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Manors
- Manors -- England -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Country homes -- England -- Fiction
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