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Return To Akenfield - Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century (Paperback, New edition)
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Return To Akenfield - Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R309
Loot Price R248
Discovery Miles 2 480
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Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English
country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers
themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter
Craig Taylor returned to the village in Suffolk on which Akenfield
was based. Over the course of several months, he sought out locals
who had appeared in the original book to see how their lives had
changed, he met newcomers to discuss their own views, and he
interviewed Ronald Blythe himself, now in his eighties. Young
farmers, retired orchardmen and Eastern European migrant workers
talk about the nature of farming in an age of computerization and
encroaching supermarkets; commuters, weekenders and retirees
discuss the realities behind the rural idyll; and the local priest,
teacher and more describe the daily pleasures and tribulations of
village life. Together, they offer a panoramic and revealing
portrait of rural English society at a time of great change.
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