The flint anchor
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The flint anchor
（Penguin modern classics）（Penguin fiction）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2021, c1954
- : [pbk.]
Available at 1 libraries
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Originally published: [London] : Chatto & Windus, 1954
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Description
'A comic masterpiece' Patrick Gale, Guardian
Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.
'A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen' Atlantic Review
'As a sustained work of historical imagination, it has few rivals ... one of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age' Claire Harman
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