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The gamekeeper
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- Book Synopsis
- 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 labourer, 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.
- About The Author
- Born into a mining family in a South Yorkshire mining village, Barry Hines (1939-2016) worked first in a coal mine before going to college, working as a teacher, and then becoming a full-time writer of fiction and screenplays for film and television. Hines is best known for A Kestrel for a Knave, which was filmed by Ken Loach, who also filmed Hines' novels The Gamekeeper, The Price of Coal and Looks and Smiles. Following the republication of The Gamekeeper in 2022, And Other Stories continues its Hines' revival with Looks and Smiles in 2023.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781913505301
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- And Other Stories, (24 April 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 301
- Weight
- 267 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 198 x 25 mm
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