Ulverton (Vintage Past) Joe Kelly and Towers Perrin

and Towers Perrin

hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books)

So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France

But there were also abusive clients

and including everything from flash mobs to blanket forts to a poodle who just might be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby

Ulverton (Vintage Past) Joe Kelly and Towers PerrinAt the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's