A Month in the Country

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A Month in the Country is a short, elegiac 1980 novel by J. L. Carr about a World War I veteran restoring a medieval mural in a rural English church while quietly healing from his wartime trauma.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
adaptedAs A Month in the Country (1987 film) NERFINISHED
author J. L. Carr NERFINISHED
awarded Guardian Fiction Prize NERFINISHED
centralActivity restoration of a medieval church mural
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre historical fiction
novel
novella
pastoral fiction
war fiction
hasCharacter Alice Keach NERFINISHED
Charles Moon NERFINISHED
Reverend Keach NERFINISHED
hasISBN 9780710804710
hasMediaType book
print
length short novel
literaryReputation modern classic of English literature
mainCharacter Tom Birkin NERFINISHED
narrativeMode retrospective narration
narrativePerspective first-person narration
originalLanguage English
pageCountApproximate about 100 pages
protagonistBackground World War I veteran
protagonistOccupation art restorer
publicationYear 1980
publisher Harvester Press NERFINISHED
settingLocation rural England
settingPeriod 1920s
shortlistedFor Booker Prize NERFINISHED
subject friendship
post-war England NERFINISHED
shell shock
unrequited love
theme art
healing
memory
nostalgia
religion
rural life
war trauma
timeOfNarration later life of the protagonist
tone elegiac

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Carr notableWork A Month in the Country
subject surface form: J. L. Carr
Frederick Ashton notableWork A Month in the Country
Two Women basedOn A Month in the Country