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    The Year of Thamar's Book is set in the months from the spring of 2015 to thesummer of 2016. An elderly recluse living in a quiet village in Burgundydiscovers he is not as alone in the world as he has for many years assumed.His grandson, well-educated but ignorant, comes to the village to help the old manmake a book of the pile of chaotic manuscript that tells the story of a difficult,painful yet luminous life. As he writes, and listens, the young man learns a gooddeal, and begins to comprehend not only how French colonial history and thehorrors of war in Algeria formed and hurt his grandfather, but also how their lastingconsequences are still damaging his country and his own family. At the same timehe begins to understand his grandfather's faith.

  • by Lucy Beckett
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    A comprehensive account of Wagner's last, and strangest opera.

  • by Lucy Beckett
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    This detailed critical study of Wallace Stevens identifies the major concerns of his poetry. Lucy Beckett presents Stevens as a contemplative poet, engaged on a long enquiry into the nature of the relationship between the creative imagination and the world it illuminates and recreates.

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