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The Boat in the Evening
The Boat in the Evening

The Boat in the Evening

Peter Owen Modern Classic

FICTION

200 Pages, 5 x 7.5

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF

Trade Paper, $15.95 (US $15.95) (CA $17.95)

Publication Date: August 2003

ISBN 9780720611984

Rights: US & CA

Peter Owen Publishers (Aug 2003)

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Overview

Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary artist's first-hand experience and observation of rural life—of landscape and people.

Reviews

"A rare kind of masterpiece, and another proof that the spirit that of poetry can find truer expression in prose than verse. If Wordsworth were alive he would be quarrying such veins in such a way."  —Daily Telegraph

Author Biography

Tarjei Vesaas was the author of several novels, volumes of poetry, and a book of short stories, which was awarded an international prize at Venice in 1952. He was awarded several other prizes, and was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in 1964, 1968, and again in 1969.