Book · 1969 · Nonfiction
Akenfield
Portrait of an English Village
New York Review Books · 353 pages
★ 6.0 editorial score
Forty-nine Suffolk villagers talk about horse teams, hunger and the Great War. Blythe caught a rural England that machinery was erasing as he wrote, and English country life has had no better witness.
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1969Depicts 1960s



