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The Claude Glass Main Edition
Author(s): Tom Bullough (Author)
- Publisher: Sort Of Books
- Publication Date: 3 May 2007
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 201 pages
- ISBN-10: 0954899512
- ISBN-13: 9780954899516
Book Description
Set in the Welsh Borders in 1980, The Claude Glass charts an unlikely friendship between two neighbours: Robin, the seven year old son of English hippie sheep farmers, and Andrew, a child so neglected by his impoverished parents that he is left almost mute, seeking solace among the farm dogs. Exploring his parents’ semi-derelict farmhouse, Andrew finds an antique convex mirror – a Claude Glass – and, gazing into it, the two boys see their wild, rural landscape strangely ordered. But this comforting vision proves fragile as tensions and sexual jealousy rock the adult world around them. Written with a lyricism and freshness that echoes the work of Bruce Chatwin and Esther Freud, The Claude Glass draws you into the lives of its startling characters and their tarnished romance with nature.
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About the Author
Tom Bullough grew up on a hill farm in Radnorshire – the setting of The Claude Glass – and now lives in the Cambrian mountains. He works as a music and travel writer, tractor driver, and helps run Tonic, a fair trade T-shirt business. This is his second novel; his first, a, was published by Sort Of Books in 2002.
