Year of Wonders opens in the autumn of The protagonist, Anna Frith, watches the half-hearted harvesting process as farmers bring bruised apples to the rectory. Anna is the housekeeper to the vicar Michael Mompellion. She reflects that while autumn used to bring successful harvests and security for the winter, now it only reminds her how much the village has lost the rhythm of its ordinary life. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is by Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. The novel was inspired by the true story of an isolated village in England, Eyam, during a plague in the . Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay?/5(K).
Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks pp, Fourth Estate, £ It begins with the scent of rotting apples and a flush that looks like rose petals blooming beneath the skin. Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders focuses on the lives of the villagers in the plague-stricken town of Eyam in As this close-knit community suffers the effects of isolation arising from their rector's decision to quarantine the town, many of the villagers are overcome by fear and ignorance. YEAR OF WONDERS. A Novel of the Plague. By Geraldine Brooks. pp. New York: Viking. $ EVER since Patrick Süskind's ''Perfume,'' one flourishing branch of historical fiction in Europe and.
Year of Wonders opens in the autumn of The protagonist, Anna Frith, watches the half-hearted harvesting process as farmers bring bruised apples to the rectory. Anna is the housekeeper to the vicar Michael Mompellion. She reflects that while autumn used to bring successful harvests and security for the winter, now it only reminds her how much the village has lost the rhythm of its ordinary life. Our book club undertook Year of Wonders by Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks. There are many things to recommend it, especially the depth of character development. Also prominent is the ability of the author to immerse the reader in the year in a small town in England where women of all classes were subject to the whims and humiliation of men. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is by Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. The novel was inspired by the true story of an isolated village in England, Eyam, during a plague in the seventeenth century.
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