| | Weymouth Sands (Picador Books) |  | Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Macmillan
Category: Book
Buy Used: £3.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 704340
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 572
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
ISBN: 0330260502
EAN: 9780330260503
ASIN: 0330260502
Publication Date: June 6, 1980
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Publisher: PicadorDate of Publication: 1973Binding: PaperbackCondition: GoodDescription: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall 0330260502 Paper browned.
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 Prototype for a Masterpiece July 5, 2002
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Powys'"A Glastonbury Romance" is, by a country mile, my favourite novel. In "Weymouth Sands" you see its genesis, the primeval identification of people with place,the glorious articulation of a pre-television consciousness - but with far less subtlety. Too often the characters are poorly fleshed out idealisations and their interactions merely philosophical dialogue. But Powys can write sex and anyone interested in the mysticism of eroticism should give this rightly reissued novel a go.
 intriguing and revealing July 24, 2001
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was attracted to this work by the claim that the author is the closest one can get to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the English language and Henry Miller's praise that 'to encounter Powys is to arrive at the very fountain of creation'. None of this proved to be unfounded, the book grips you in a quiet way that you don't notice and you come to care for the characters and what their fates will be. Interspersed with the unfolding of their stories is prose so beautiful and insightful into people in general, our relationship with nature, with each other, and, most frighteningly, with ourselves. The author reveals all of this to us with clarity and beauty and makes Weymouth Sands an amazing experience to read.
 One of Powys's greatest novels October 9, 1999
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
John Cowper Powys is one of the most under-rated of twentieth century writers, and Weymouth Sands one of his greatest novels. While reflecting Powys's own unique character, the world described in the book is remarkably free from the modern banes of political correctness and the constrictions of a 'point of view'. As a result it offers a wonderfully wide and unjudgmental view of the characters and the locale, which combines with Powys's extraordinary rich literary expression to make this a truly great work. Buy this book!
Well worth the effort - a great experience! April 30, 1999
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I nearly didn't get beyond page one, but am very glad I did! JCP's style is densely woven and obviously "literary" at times (a fault today?!) but is well worth getting into. His characters and places are brilliantly portrayed, and his philosophy is compelling. Read it!
beautiful April 25, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Powys's most accessible and moving work. An excellent introduction to a truly great writer. Don't miss this one.
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