Ash Before Oak

By Sim Kern and Jeremy Cooper

Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful, winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, Jeremy Cooper's first novel in over a decade is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.

Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910695890
• ISBN13: 9781910695890
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.9" x 7.7"