The Resource The wake, Paul Kingsnorth
The wake, Paul Kingsnorth
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The item The wake, Paul Kingsnorth represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item The wake, Paul Kingsnorth represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Everyone knows the date of the Battle of Hastings. Far fewer people know what happened next... Set in the three years after the Norman invasion, 'The wake' tells the story of a fractured band of guerrilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Carefully hung on the known historical facts about the almost forgotten war of resistance that spread across England in the decade after 1066, it is a story of the brutal shattering of lives, a tale of lost gods and haunted visions, narrated by a man of the Lincolnshire fens bearing witness to the end of his world. Written in what the author describes as 'a shadow tongue' - a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable for the modern reader - 'The wake' renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 365 pages
- Note
- ' ... It is written instead in what might be called a shadow tongue - a pseudo-language by combining some of its [Old English] vocabulary and syntax with the English we speak today'--page 353
- Isbn
- 9781783520985
- Label
- The wake
- Title
- The wake
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Kingsnorth
- Subject
-
- Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History | Invasions -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1066-1687 -- Fiction
- Guerrilla warfare -- Fiction
- Guerrillas -- Fiction
- Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Landowners -- Fiction
- Normans -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Anglo-Saxon race -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Farmers -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Everyone knows the date of the Battle of Hastings. Far fewer people know what happened next... Set in the three years after the Norman invasion, 'The wake' tells the story of a fractured band of guerrilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Carefully hung on the known historical facts about the almost forgotten war of resistance that spread across England in the decade after 1066, it is a story of the brutal shattering of lives, a tale of lost gods and haunted visions, narrated by a man of the Lincolnshire fens bearing witness to the end of his world. Written in what the author describes as 'a shadow tongue' - a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable for the modern reader - 'The wake' renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past
- Awards note
- Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2014.
- Cataloging source
- SALS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kingsnorth, Paul
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Buckmaster trilogy
- Series volume
- 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Normans
- Anglo-Saxon race
- Guerrilla warfare
- Guerrillas
- Farmers
- Revenge
- Landowners
- Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The wake, Paul Kingsnorth
- Note
- ' ... It is written instead in what might be called a shadow tongue - a pseudo-language by combining some of its [Old English] vocabulary and syntax with the English we speak today'--page 353
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- 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
- 000054817139
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 365 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781783520985
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)922013283
- Label
- The wake, Paul Kingsnorth
- Note
- ' ... It is written instead in what might be called a shadow tongue - a pseudo-language by combining some of its [Old English] vocabulary and syntax with the English we speak today'--page 353
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- 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
- 000054817139
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 365 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781783520985
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)922013283
Subject
- Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History | Invasions -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1066-1687 -- Fiction
- Guerrilla warfare -- Fiction
- Guerrillas -- Fiction
- Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Landowners -- Fiction
- Normans -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Anglo-Saxon race -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Farmers -- Fiction
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