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A Man of his Time

✍ Scribed by Sillitoe, Alan

Book ID
109258520
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2005
Tongue
en-US
Weight
299 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780007173280

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✦ Synopsis

A wonderful historical novel from one of our best loved and most prolific writers

As a young man Ernest Burton was a bold and reckless journeyman blacksmith, seducing all young girls he comes across. We watch him grow to become a master Blacksmith, and a tyrannical father of eight who refuses even to try to remain faithful to the woman he married and who reigns over his young family with an iron fist, instilling in his sons and daughters a mixture of fear and hatred of him. Burton is an extraordinary fictional creation -- a bully who shows no mercy in his relentless terrorism of his sons, he can also be effortlessly charming, with a magnetic attraction that effects all he meets.

Written in the sparse, plain language that Sillitoe has made his own, A Man of His Time is a mesmerising portrait of an extraordinary individual, aware that he is, in many ways, the last of a dying breed. It's a rich, absorbing, wonderfully readable novel that...

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