Tim Pears, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55611-423-6
In this piercingly beautiful, fiercely lyrical first novel, narrator Alison Freemantle, 13, awakens to love, sexuality, death, class divisions and the mystery of life on a farm in a Devonshire village during the summer of 1984. Alison's father...
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Tim Pears, Author Picador USA $25 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-18112-3
There are moments when Pears's talent shines as brightly as it did in his debut, In the Place of Falling Leaves, but this big novel lacks the binding gravity required to unify its satellite plots and characters. The family chronicle, which spans 40...
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Tim Pears. Counterpoint, $14.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-58243-729-3
Pears (In the Place of Fallen Leaves) opens his robust, resonant novel with a car accident on a Birmingham, England, roadway that claims the life of six-year-old Sara Ithell and costs her father, Owen, his right hand before backtracking to Owen's...
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Tim Pears. Bloomsbury, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63557-202-5
This elegiac second novel in Pears’s West Country Trilogy (after The Horseman) movingly depicts life in the English countryside on the eve of the First World War. Leo Sercombe, banished from the estate where he worked, travels through the West of...
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