The Book of Ebenezer le Page The Book of Ebenezer le Page

The Book of Ebenezer le Page

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Publisher Description

A loveably cantankerous 80-year-old reflects on life, love, and solitude on the isle of Guernsey in this “masterpiece” hailed as “one of the best novels of our time” (New York Times).


“Literally one of a kind . . . a true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious.” —O Magazine


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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2007
July 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2
MB

Customer Reviews

eggEggbaby ,

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

A charming and nostalgic reminiscence of insular life.

john cocktostan ,

The Book of Ebeneezer le Page

It is perfect.

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