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Book Description
An elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community, Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.
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lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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Make It Strange
After the excellent book on his travels, In Patagonia, it is at first surprising to find Bruce Chatwin writing a novel about the small sheep farmers at home on the hills of the Welsh Border country of England. Sheep farming is, of course, the common ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 272 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0099769719
- ISBN-13: 9780099769712
- Publisher: VINTAGE (RAND)
- Pub date: Nov 03, 2005
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Audio Cassette
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780099769712 | Paperback | $7.99 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Chatwins
There were reports in the papers two years ago concerning identical twins, Freda and Greta Chaplin, who had been had up at York for making a nuisance of themselves, and who seemed like creatures in a fable. Infatuation with a lorry-driver had turned ... (read full critics)