{"product_id":"akenfield-portrait-of-an-english-village-9781590178300","title":"Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village","description":"Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, \u003ci\u003e Akenfield\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe's wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Blythe\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1922 in Suffolk, England, where his family has lived for centuries. He is the author of some thirty books including works of fiction, criticism, memoir, and social history, and has served as editor for a number of novels, poetry anthologies, and diaries. For the past twenty years he has written a weekly column for the \u003ci\u003eChurch Times\u003c\/i\u003e about daily life in the Suffolk village of Wormingford, where he lives. He is the president of the John Clare Society and in 2006 received a lifetime acheivement award from the Royal Society of Literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMatt Weiland\u003c\/b\u003e is a vice president and senior editor at W.W. Norton \u0026amp; Company. A former editor at \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, he is also the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of S\u003ci\u003etate by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and he contributed the introduction to the NYRB Classics edition of \u003ci\u003eNames on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e by George R. Stewart.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527905120530,"sku":"9781590178300","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_694d9ba8-6e80-455b-973b-bc52c83b013b.jpg?v=1731316987","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/akenfield-portrait-of-an-english-village-9781590178300","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}