Home |Register |Sign In Home Top Picks: All Books The Horseman The Horseman by Tim Pears Price: $27.00 (Hardcover) MorePublished: February 28, 2017 Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) From the Publisher: Somerset, 1911.</p><p> The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched.</p><p> Albert Sercombe is a farmer on Lord Prideaux's estate and his eldest son, Sid, isunderkeeper to the head gamekeeper.</p><p> His son, Leo, a talented rider,grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter, Charlotte--a girl who shoots and rides, much to the surprise of the locals.</p><p> In beautiful, pastoral writing, The Horseman tells the story of a family, a community, and the landscape they come from.</p><p> The Horseman is a return to the world invoked in Pears' first award-winning, extravagantly praised novel, In the Place ofFallen Leaves .</p><p> It is the first book of a trilogy that will follow Leo away from the estate and into the First World War and beyond.</p><p> Exquisitely,tenderly… Rate This Book Add To Wishlist |Rate/Review Add To Bookshelf Get This Book Personalize / Add More ChoicesGo to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site where you can get this book.</p><p> What We Say This gentle, hushed work is about life on an estate in England circa 1911.</p><p> War clouds are looming but the rhythms of nature and a world where things have always been done a certain way -- and seemingly always will -- hold sway.</p><p> Our hero is theyoung lad Leo, who is a boy of few words.</p><p> He studies nature the way other kids study books and above all the boy loves horses.</p><p> Leo's reserved relationship with the other servants, with his family and even his schoolteachers are almost as interesting as Leo's relationship with the natural world around him -- the ferrets and birds and ants and sky and grass andwind and, of course, the horses. "The Horseman" is so soft a story, so lovingly intimate, so gently celebratory of everythingShare This Book About The Author Tim Pears Release Info List Price: $27.00 (Hardcover) Published: February 28, 2017 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pages: 320 ISBN 10: 1632866935 ISBN 13: 9781632866936from the slaughtering of a pig to a horse auction to the ritual of tending to the fields that you're almost bewitched.</p><p> Pears doesn't wow you with incident.</p><p> You must pay attention.</p><p> But when you do, like Leo you will be rewarded with wisdom. -- Michael Giltz What Others Say "Refreshing . . . even revelatory . . .</p><p> A work that is dense with detail and richly evocative . . .</p><p> A very impressive performance." âJane Smiley, The Washington Post Book World on IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES "This is it.</p><p> This is the real thing.</p><p> This is whatever I mean by the work of a born writer . . . .</p><p> The imaginativeenergy reminds me of Dickens, constantly discovering surprising quirks and shifts and dimensions in his owninventions . . .</p><p> The novel is comic, and wry, and elegiac, and shrewd and thoughtful all at once.</p><p> Please read it."âA.</p><p> S.</p><p> Byatt, Daily Telegraph on IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES "The author is a gifted storyteller, steeped in country lore and the beauty of ordinary events.</p><p> Like Thomas Hardy whose kindred spirit quietly animates these pages, he is concerned with the dignity of work, the force of destiny and the consequences of human passion." âPeter Finn, The New York Times Book Review on IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES "An engaging, well-written and original novel.</p><p> Pears could write about the washing up and make it interesting."âPhilip Hensher, The Guardian on IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES "A triumph . . .… More What You Say Filter by No Reviews Found ..... about us |faq|advertise |privacy policy |newsletter |contact us ©2018, BookBuddha LLc.</p><p> All Rights Reserved.
