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Ulverton by Adam Thorpe

ISBN: 9780436520747
Release Date: 11 May 1992
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Categories: Modern fiction

A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton, a fictional village on the Wessex Downs, through its generations. Based on a bedrock of folktales, myth and oral tradition, the author builds layers of new narrative, often using dialect or the true demotic voice.

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