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Tivington Nott

Tivington Nott

by Alex Miller (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

Based on the lives of real people in Somerset on the borders of Exmoor, Miller tells his own story of a young labourer swept up in the adventure of riding second horse in a west country stag hunt. Finding himself in a closed social system in which he has neither status nor power, the young man identifies with the aberrant Tivington nott stag, which, despite its lack of antlers, has become a legend in the district for its ability to elude the hunt and to compete successfully with the antlered stags in the rut.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 180
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 04 Apr 2013
ISBN 10: 1741147786
ISBN 13: 9781741147780
Book Overview: An extraordinarily compressed powerhouse of a novel, at once wholly original, gripping and mysterious. While The Tivington Nott was only Alex Miller's second novel, all the hallmarks of his style are present.

Media Reviews
Altogether brilliant. This man knows his hunting country. * Somerset County Gazette *
To sacrifice or be sacrificed: the outsider's stark choice in Alex Miller's darkly violent Exmoor. But, like the almost mythical Tivington nott, the outsider harbours a savage will of his own, an Odyssean instinct for self-preservation the natives cannot tame. What they plan as a bloody initiation becomes for him a liberatory rite of passage. -- Paul Carter
Author Bio
Alex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize; the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. British by birth, he now lives in Victoria.