A month in the country
by James Lloyd Carr · first published 1980
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According to blogger/reviewer Moira Redmond, "This is famously a book where nothing happens." Birkin, a young war veteran arrives at a small country church to restore a recently-discovered 14th century wall painting. He suffers from shell-shock from his time in the trenches of WWI, and this had caused him to reject some societal norms and be regarded with suspicion by the conventional. The experience for Birkin is one of regret and of healing, as he makes friends in the village and completes his task. He departs, with sorrow but also a measure of confidence that he can now go on with
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…see the action in more than a vague and patchy way, is a big problem in those cases. (I can even get something out of visual description if it's very impressionistic -- the book that comes to mind is A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr -- but of course that could be entirely down to the gap between aphantasia and hypophantasia.) I wonder if you could enjoy a very dialogue-heavy novel, or a literary novel that focuses mainly…
on “Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes” ↗A Month in the Country. A WW I vet takes a job in a small English village restoring an old mural in a church -- it has been covered with paint for 400 years. The mural itself plays a role in the story, but it's mostly about…
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