by Peter Ackroyd · Hamish Hamilton Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241132579
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«English Music» is the novel by Peter Ackroyd, published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd in paperback (416 pages, in English).
After the death of his mother, Timothy Harcombe is separated from his father and sent to live with his grandparents, where he takes refuge in English literature. The novel alternates chapters set in the late 1920s with dreamlike episodes inhabited by figures such as Byrd, Constable and Carroll, in a journey through culture and imagination.
Peter Ackroyd, author of First Light, Chatterton and Hawksmoor, published «English Music» in 1992 with Hamish Hamilton Ltd.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in English culture and in novels that combine realism and imagination.
Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
