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出版社:CORGI
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ISBN:9780552999748
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作者:ROBERT EDRIC
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頁數:281
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出版日期:2007-01-01
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印刷日期:2007-01-01
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包裝:平裝
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開本:32開
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版次:2
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印次:1
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Gathering the Water belongs with a group of his novels whose artistry and resonance constitute one of the most astonishing bodies of work to appear from a single author for a generation. A compelling story…. Robert Edric writes with a steady rhythm that, like the flow of the diverted dam waters, fills in a picture of horror and loss with a sustained and unrelenting force.
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It is 1847, northern England, and Charles Weightman has been
given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge
Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants. Weightman is
heartily resented by these locals, and he himself is increasingly
unconvinced both of the wisdom of his appointment and of the
integrity and motives of the company men who posted him there. He
finds some solace, however, in his enigmatic neighbour, Mary
Latimer. Caring for her mad sister, Mary is also an outsider, and
a companionship develops between the two of them which offers them
both some comfort and support in their mutual isolation. As winter
closes steadily in and as the waters begin to rise in the Forge
Valley, it becomes increasingly evident that the man-made deluge
cannot be avoided; not by the locals desperate to save their
homes, nor by the reluctant agent of their destruction, Weightman
himself.
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