Seven Steeples
Title | Seven Steeples PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Baume |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2022-04-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0358628954 |
“One of the most beautiful novels I have ever read.” —New York Times Book Review A stunning, powerful novel about a couple that pushes against traditional expectations, moving with their dogs to the Irish countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make attempts to disappear from society. It is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another—one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they’ve drifted. They arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain gently and unspectacularly ascends from the Atlantic, “as if it had accumulated stature over centuries. As if, over centuries, it had steadily flattened itself upwards.” They make a promise to climb the mountain, but—over the course of the next seven years—it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and as their interest in the wider world recedes. Seven Steeples is a beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of nature. Through Bell and Sigh, and the life they create for themselves, Sara Baume explores what it means to escape the traditional paths laid out before us—and what it means to evolve in devotion to another person, and to the landscape.
Seven Steeples
Title | Seven Steeples PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Henrichsen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | |
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Steeples
Title | Steeples PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Manning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | North Adams (Mass.) |
ISBN | 9780965868457 |
Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Title | Spill Simmer Falter Wither PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Baume |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473535689 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015 WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR. A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, ‘too old for starting over, too young for giving up’, and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast – but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they’d established, and take to the road. Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story: a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship, and of the scars that are more than skin-deep. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, in lyrical language that surprises and delights, this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent
LIFE
Title | LIFE PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1953-10-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
A Line Made by Walking
Title | A Line Made by Walking PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Baume |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2017-02-16 |
Genre | Mental illness |
ISBN | 1785150413 |
'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, its beauty, its invention. Baume is a writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in.' Colum McCann Struggling to cope with urban life - and with life in general - Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to the rural bungalow on 'turbine hill' that has been vacant since her grandmother's death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by nature, that she hopes to regain her footing in art and life. She spends her days pretending to read, half-listening to the radio, failing to muster the energy needed to leave the safety of her haven. Her family come and go, until they don't and she is left alone to contemplate the path that led her here, and the smell of the carpet that started it all. Finding little comfort in human interaction, Frankie turns her camera lens on the natural world and its reassuring cycle of life and death. What emerges is a profound meditation on the interconnectedness of wilderness, art and individual experience, and a powerful exploration of human frailty.
Handiwork
Title | Handiwork PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Baume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2020-03-26 |
Genre | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN | 9781916434257 |
In this contemplative short narrative, the artist and writer charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist