The Gamekeeper - Barry Hines

The Gamekeeper

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2022
And Other Stories (Verlag)
978-1-913505-30-1 (ISBN)
14,95 inkl. MwSt
Humankind's relationship to nature is governed by money in this first US publication of a classic by the greatest chronicler of the British working class
George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not.

Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is not a romantic hero. He is a laborer, who knows the natural world well and sees it without sentimentality.

Rightly acclaimed as a masterpiece of nature writing as well as a radical statement on work and class, The Gamekeeper was also, like Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave (Kes), adapted by Hines and filmed by Ken Loach, and it too stands as a haunting classic of twentieth-century fiction.

Born into a mining family in a South Yorkshire mining village, Barry Hines (1939–2016) worked first in a coal mine before going to college, working as a teacher, and then becoming a full-time writer of fiction and screenplays for film and television. Hines is best known for A Kestrel for a Knave, a novel that has never been out of print in the UK and was filmed by Ken Loach as Kes.

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort John Berger
Verlagsort High Wycombe
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-913505-30-8 / 1913505308
ISBN-13 978-1-913505-30-1 / 9781913505301
Zustand Neuware
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