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The Western Wind

The Western Wind

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The village that came to no good; the only village for miles around that doesn’t trade wool, doesn’t make cloth, doesn’t have the skill to build a bridge.

He investigates the mystery by listening to the confessions, presented with a host of suspects that include a local landowner, and a woman who just might be seeking a way out of her suffering. He’s aware they want him to do something but feels unable to act: “We behave according to the creatures we are, and I had no notion of what creature they’d made me become” (p.

The chief character of the book is the parish priest of the hapless village of Oakham, about to be swallowed up for its pasture lands by a hungry monastery nearby. with] an educated and meditative voice, reminiscent of those deployed by great stylists such as WG Sebald, Claire Messud, John Banville and Joseph O’Neill .

There have been many fanciful explanations of its meaning: that the author is inviting “the smalle rayne” to water the parched landscape of the soul, or to revive the potency of love; or that the seasonal imagery refers to Christ as a symbol of resurrection; or that it’s a lament for a dead love, her resurrection symbolised by the rain fertilising the soil. What do you make of Reve’s framing of his dislike in terms of the dean’s own thwarting of his liking? The May 1963 edition of The Explicator, University of South Carolina, argued that “can” is here backward-looking, a northern and north midland variant of gan, from ginne, meaning did in Middle English, i. What do you make of Shrovetide, with its carnival atmosphere and the license it offers for wildness and subversion of norms before the Lenten time of spiritual discipline?As in Dear Thief, her quasi-epistolatory novel of 2014, this method is in itself a central part of the story. She finds the cabin empty, but is tormented by violent poltergeist activity before losing consciousness. Is this a reduction of the parishioners’ humanity, given that in biblical understanding human beings are above the animals?



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