The brickfield
By: a novel by L. P. Hartley
Publisher: H. Hamilton
Published: 1964
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Description: Elderly and infirm novelist Richard Mardick dramatically dictates his memoirs to his young protege Denys Aspin, in order that his life story may be preserved. Faced with a mysterious and undefined illness, the young Richard, we learn, was sent to recuperate and work on his uncle's farm, causing him to give up hope of an intellectual career.