Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, *Akenfield* is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe's wonderful book raises end
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (US)
โ Scribed by Blythe, Ronald
- Book ID
- 108896634
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781590178300
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