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Harvest (2013)

by Jim Crace(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0385520778 (ISBN13: 9780385520775)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Nan A. Talese

review 1: Honestly, this is the kind of book where a plot review doesn't even matter. I could poke holes in the plot, as other reviewers have done, but this read more poetically to me. The writing style is hauntingly unsettling, a sense of foreboding is woven all throughout without ever explicitly stated. Not always easy to read, and the slowness of the plot means that full attention has to be given and each word enjoyed. Not my typical way of reading, but a book I can still appreciate. The feeling of the book remains with me.
review 2: This is nearly a 5-star book, due mainly to the quality of the prose. The descriptions are rich and paint a beautiful picture of a place and time that I otherwise have little to relate to. The novel is short in terms of pages, but each ... moreparagraph is dense. There are not many characters, but the narrator, Walter, is easy to like and is written deeply and thoughtfully. The story itself is of a small village in England hundreds of years ago, after then enactment of the Enclosure Acts. As the novel begins, changes are afoot in the village. Then suddenly, in only a week's time, everything has changed, far beyond those anticipated at the start. The denseness of the writing was a little intimidating at the start, but that diminished quickly and I found myself enjoying it and getting eager to see how it would end. less

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