A Month in the Country Oakland Date: 4/1/2003

Date: 4/1/2003

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight

and inescapable sorrow

Few readers can fail to be touched by David’s fate

political activist

A Month in the Country Oakland Date: 4/1/2003Author Contributor(s): Carr, J. L.; Holroyd, Michael Publisher: NYRB Classics Date: 10 31 2000 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re enterand fully embracenormal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he