Book description
An autobiographical novel, written in an intense, exceptional voice, recounts the life of Ebenezer Le Page--born and bred on, and fiercely attached to, the Channel Islands--and his family, friends, feuds, and sorrows
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I'd never heard of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page until my agent, Victoria, recommended it recently, and I fell under its precious spell.
It purports to be the autobiography of Ebenezer, a now elderly, cranky eccentric on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Any momentum to the narrative given by the chronology of Ebenezer's life – from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s - is undermined by our narrator's endless digressions, asides, and opinions.
Instead, you enter the novel as if stepping through a door into a different realm of existence. Ebenezer tells us of his…
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