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August.(Brief article)(Book review)
August Gerard Woodward. Norton, $14.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-33271-1
Shortlisted for the Whitbread in 2001, Woodward's novel is the first in a trilogy focusing on the expansive, deeply troubled Jones family. (The books have been published out of sequence in the U.S.) An accident on a Welsh bicycling tour in 1955 leads Aldous Jones to discover the farm that will be the site of subsequent holidays. Every summer that follows, Aldous pitches tents for his rapidly burgeoning young family in the pastures of the good-natured, seemingly unchangeable Evans family, which serves as an annual mirror for the Joneses. Alas, Jones family life, despite its simple joys of …
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Magazine article from: The Spectator
Taylor, D.J.
March 10, 2007
700+ words
