КНИГА ЭБЕНЕЗЕРА ЛЕ ПЕЙджа, Дж.Б. Эдвардс

THE BOOK OF EBENEZER LE PAGE

G.B. Edwards

Book in English

Language - English

Publisher - Penguin Books

Publication Date - 1984

Format - Paperback

Pages - 490

Condition - Acceptable 

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island.

G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.

REVIEWS

"A masterpiece... one of the best novels of our time...I know of no description of happiness in modern literature equal to the one that ends this novel." --The New York Times (Guy Davenport)

"Quaint. Fascinating. Unique. Queer...The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a eulogy for a way of life." --The Los Angeles Times (Valerie Miner)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

G. B. Edwards (1899—1976) was born on the British Island of Guernsey. A professor of drama and literature at Toynbee Hall, his friends included Middleton Murray, J.S. Collis, and Stephen Potter. Though full of promise, he published only a handful of articles. Encouraged by Edward Chaney to create a trilogy of novels on island life, he completed only one, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page.