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The Short Day Dying
The Short Day Dying
Author: Peter Hobbs
This is a beautiful and highly acclaimed debut novel of rural passion set in nineteenth century Cornwall. Charles Wenmoth is a blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the wildest reaches of South-West England. It is 1870 and Wenmoth devotes his weekdays to work and the Sabbath to walking great distances to preach to dwindling congregations. Cha...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780571217182
ISBN-10: 0571217184
Publication Date: 1/1/2006
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Faber and Faber
Book Type: Paperback
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Good literature about a lay minister in England and his struggles with faith. Sort of stream of consciousness with little punctuation make it a little harder to read, but I really enjoyed that it had no climax, an interesting period study.


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