To Calais, In Ordinary Time
ISBN-13:
9781786896742
ISBN-10:
1786896745
Edition:
Main
Author:
James Meek
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Format:
Hardcover
400 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781786896742
ISBN-10:
1786896745
Edition:
Main
Author:
James Meek
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Format:
Hardcover
400 pages
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To Calais, In Ordinary Time (ISBN-13: 9781786896742 and ISBN-10: 1786896745), written by authors
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Description
Three journeys. One road.
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.
Coming in their direction from across the English Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers’ past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayfarers must confront the nature of their loves and desires.
A tremendous feat of language and empathy, it summons a medieval world that is at once uncannily plausible, utterly alien, and eerily reflective of our own. James Meek’s extraordinary To Calais, In Ordinary Time is a novel about love, class, faith, loss, gender, and desire―set against one of the biggest cataclysms of human history.
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.
Coming in their direction from across the English Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers’ past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayfarers must confront the nature of their loves and desires.
A tremendous feat of language and empathy, it summons a medieval world that is at once uncannily plausible, utterly alien, and eerily reflective of our own. James Meek’s extraordinary To Calais, In Ordinary Time is a novel about love, class, faith, loss, gender, and desire―set against one of the biggest cataclysms of human history.
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