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The dig / John Preston.

Title: The dig / John Preston.
Author: Preston, John, 1953-
Publication: New York : Other Press, [2016]

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261 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"A succinct and witty literary venture that tells the strange story of a priceless treasure discovered in East Anglia on the eve of World War II. In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
Fiction.

Note

First published in the United Kingdom by Viking in 2007.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

9781590517802
1590517806
9781590517819 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015039129

OCLC

913844811
SCSB-11428203

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Harvard Library