G.B. Edwards. (2012). The Book of Ebenezer le Page. New York Review Books.

G.B. Edwards. 2012. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. New York Review Books.

G.B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. New York Review Books, 2012.

G.B. Edwards. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. New York Review Books, 2012.

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   • bioText: Gerald Basil Edwards (1899–1976) was born in Vale Parish on the Channel Island of Guernsey and lived there until joining the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry in 1917. He attended Bristol University for several years, though he does not seem to have graduated. By the late 1920s Edwards was living in London, where he taught literature and drama at a number of institutions, including Toynbee Hall, and became acquainted with the writers J.S. Collis, Stephen Potter, and Middleton Murry, who recruited him to write for The Adelphi. All three considered Edwards a genius and expected him to become a new D.H. Lawrence. In 1928, Edwards was commissioned by Jonathan  Cape to write a biography of Lawrence, with whom he briefly corresponded. Lawrence then died and the biography was never completed. Although he continued to write, Edwards published very little from that point on, eventually earning his living as a civil servant. He retired to Dorset, where in 1972 he met the art student Edward Chaney, who encouraged him to complete The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. Edwards bequeathed the typescript to his young friend, who eventually succeeded in having it published. It was hailed as a great novel in England and America and has since been published in French and Italian.
     John Fowles (1926–2005) was a critic and writer best known for the novels The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
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Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island.
        
G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.

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   • source: The New York Times (Guy Davenport)
   • content: "A masterpiece... one of the best novels of our time...I know of no description of happiness in modern literature equal to the one that ends this novel."
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   • source: The Los Angeles Times (Valerie Miner)
   • content: "Quaint. Fascinating. Unique. Queer...The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a eulogy for a way of life."
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   • source: The Atlantic
   • content: "It reads like Beethoven's Ninth...Coated with sea salt, its crannies spilling wildflowers, Edwards's book still roars like some huge shell held, cutting, against your ear."
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   • source: William Golding
   • content: "An extraordinary book!...Splendid! To read it is not like reading but living."
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   • source: The Washington Post (Doug Lang)
   • content: "Imagine a weekend spent in deep conversation with a superb old man, a crusty, intelligent, passionate and individualistic character at the peak of his powers as a raconteur, and you will have a very good idea of the impact of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page...It amuses, it entertains, it moves us... Ebenezer's voice presides over all and its creation is a tremendous achievement."
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   • source: Chicago Tribune (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
   • content: "[A] rare find...it is unique–a first novel that resists all categories–and it overflows with the sense of life...It's chief virtues are a story rich in human connection and a marvelously seductive language...For those who cherish style, it is also good to hear a fresh novelist's voice telling the old story of the passions, generosities, and greeds that battle in us all."
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   • source: The Washington Post (New In Paperbacks)
   • content: "G.B. Edwards, who died an unknown in 1976, constructed his novel out of the patterns of daily life–countless teas, lovers' quarrels, accounts of friendships and the signs of change as Guernsey reluctantly assumes the characteristics of progress. The results are enchanting."
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   • source: John Fowles
   • content: "A remarkable achievement!...The book's voice and its methods are so unusual that it belongs nowhere on our conventional literary maps."
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   • source: Ivan Doig, Christian Science Monitor
   • content: "[A] knowing and beguiling chronicle of life on the English Channel isle of Guernsey...This deceptively plain-spoken story of a man's years passing in review before him struck me, when I first read it in 1981, as a beautifully crafted job of writing. Upon rereading it recently, I redoubled my liking and admiration for both Ebenezer and Edwards."
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    • source: Allan Gurganus, O Magazine
    • content: "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, by G. B. Edwards, is an inexhaustible book I never tire of giving. It is literally one of a kind, a work with no precedent, sponsorship, or pedigree. A true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious, it seems drenched with the harsh tidal beauties of its setting, the isle of Guernsey...For every person nearing retirement, every latent writer who hopes to leave his island and find the literary mainland, its author–quiet, self-sufficient, tidy Homeric–remains a patron saint."
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    • source: Archipelago
    • content: "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, by G. B. Edwards, is an oddity and a great literary wonder, written in the beautiful French patios of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands...[Edwards] feels intensely about everything and everyone in this deliciously rich novel of longing and love."
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    • source: The New York Review of Books
    • content: "Here is an islander; an island man, solitary, unmarried, alienated, who describes the modern denaturing of our world. Granite quarries and tomatoes and early potatoes; but then come tourists, international companies, tax evaders, occupation by Germans, etcetera."

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