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The Gamekeeper
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781913505301
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: Apr 26 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not.
Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is not a romantic hero. He is a laborer, who knows the natural world well and sees it without sentimentality.
Rightly acclaimed as a masterpiece of nature writing as well as a radical statement on work and class, The Gamekeeper was also, like Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave (Kes), adapted by Hines and filmed by Ken Loach, and it too stands as a haunting classic of twentieth-century fiction.
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