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But I can honestly say that this book was therapeutic in a way, it gave me the escapism that I desperately craved and I loved every moment of it, it was an opportunity to let the world's troubles and my own busy life slip away whilst I basked in Myers words and beautiful story. Calvert and Redbone, the two mates that we follow in this book, who are they and what are they up to?
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Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. Slowly, through the routes of thought, dialogue and confrontation, Myers bares the souls of his circle makers. By renting a car you will have more freedom to choose when and where to go, and you will be on your own schedule.
So ist der Hintergrund, dass die beiden etwas von perfekter Schönheit erschaffen wollen ein ganz wichtiger Punkt. Their motivations are myriad: isolation, a love of nature, separation from the land, the spirit of place, myth-making, anti-capitalist perspectives on the authorship of art, rebellion against the British political class and, most wrenchingly of all, the overwhelming need to soothe broken hearts and shattered lives. This brilliant, funny, and delightful novel is about misfits finding purpose, and the redemptive power of artistic expression even in the bleakest of circumstances.
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They embody a counter-tradition: the pagan, anarchistic ruralism so vividly channelled in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, or David Rudkin’s Penda’s Fen, or by rogue art groups such as English Heretic and Folklore Tapes. From his choice of language, to how beautifully he renders the countryside and nature, to how he wound the threads of the story around me so tightly and so quickly that I couldn't escape even if I wanted to. Myers ode to a great gentle friendship and the huge satisfaction of creating beauty and being in harmony with the natural world around us.In this reality it is not the chuckling forms of Doug Bower and Dave Chorley leading an engrossed public on a merry dance, but two troubled outsiders with roots in the same village: former soldier Ivan Calvert and sometimes New Age traveller Redbone. He also lives in the “second smallest house” in England, and keeps meaning to take the measurements of the smallest house. Recipient of the Roger Deakin Award and first published by Bluemoose Books, Myers' novel The Gallows Pole was published to acclaim in 2017 and was winner of the Walter Scott Prize 2018 - the world's largest prize for historical fiction. I felt an overwhelming sense of much of this novel being an ode to the environment and the ecosystem, climate change a looming threat throughout the heat wave of the English summer of 1989 that is the backdrop to this story. Redbone lives in his rickety old van and is what would have been described at the time as a crusted punk.
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