Ash Before Oak
Jeremy Cooper
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Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator’s interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator’s subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around him. Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful, winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, Jeremy Cooper’s first novel in over a decade is a stunning investigation ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910695890
SKU
9781910695890
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Ref
99-1
About Jeremy Cooper
Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of five previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum’s catalogue of artists’ postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won ... Read more
Reviews for Ash Before Oak
‘Very moving, beautiful and so thoughtful too – a wonderful evocation of animals and birds, sky and Somerset.’ — Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth ‘... what Cooper offers, very boldly and successfully, is a broad narrative arc of collapse and tentative recovery, in which a struggle for meaning and purpose in life assumes a desperate intensity.... Because of the narrator's ... Read more