Testimonies - by Patrick O'Brian (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel.--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel <em>Testimonies</em>: A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself. Schwartz' imagination was fired by this sinister tale of love and death set in Wales, a timeless story with echoes of Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.<br /><br /> Joseph Pugh, sick of Oxford and of teaching, decides to take some time off to live in a wild and beautiful Welsh farm valley. There he falls physically ill and is nursed back to health by Bronwen Vaughn, the wife of a neighboring farmer. Slowly, unwillingly, Bronwen and Pugh fall in love;' and while that word is never spoken between them, their story is as passionate and as tragic as that of Vronsky and Anna Karenina.<br /><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A subtle and fascinating tale.-- "Miami Herald"<br><br>O'Brian's greatness is present. Calmly and with wit he shows how things go wrong in little worlds.-- "Boston Globe"<br><br>Patrick O'Brian has a power of bringing near to the reader...savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.--Eudora Welty<br>
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