By G.B. Edwards
Ebenezer Le web page, cantankerous, opinionated, and fascinating, is among the so much compelling literary creations of the past due 20th century. 80 years previous, Ebenezer has lived his entire lifestyles at the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a spot stuck among the coasts of britain and France but a global except both. Ebenezer himself is fiercely self sustaining, yet as he reaches the top of his lifestyles he's made up our minds to inform his personal tale and the tales of these he has recognized. He writes of kinfolk secrets and techniques and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and misplaced. The ebook of Ebenezer Le web page is a superbly distinctive chronicle of a lifestyles, however it is both an indirect reckoning with the traumas of the 20th century, as Ebenezer recollects either the lads misplaced to the nice conflict and the German career of Guernsey in the course of global battle II, and appears with melancholy on the encroachments of trade and tourism on his loved island. G. B. Edwards worked in obscurity all his lifestyles and accomplished The booklet of Ebenezer Le web page almost immediately ahead of his loss of life. released posthumously, the booklet is a triumph of the storyteller’s artwork that evokes the extreme voice of a dwelling man."Imagine a weekend spent in deep dialog with an exceptional previous guy, a crusty, clever, passionate and individualistic personality on the top of his powers as a raconteur, and you'll have a great rules of the impression of The e-book of Ebenezer Le Page...It amuses, it entertains, it strikes us...” –The Washington Post"A real epic, as attractive because it is hilarious, it kind of feels sopping wet with the cruel tidal beauties of its setting...For all people nearing retirement, each latent author who hopes to go away his island and locate the literary mainland, its author–quiet, self-sufficient, tidy Homeric–remains a purchaser saint." –Allan Gurganus, O journal