Earth to earth

By John Cornwell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088001069X
• ISBN13: 9780880010696
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1984
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A haunting portrait of a family & a forgotten way of life

What could have been a lurid tale of murder and madness becomes in Cornwell's hands a elegant elegy for an eccentric family and a lost way of life. Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton, 2 brothers and a sister from an ancient farming family in Devon, England, died violently in the mid-1970's. Though this true tale was well (and sensationally) documented by the British press at the time, the story is probably unknown to most American readers. Cornwell journeyed to Devon to ostensibly uncover the mystery of their deaths. Instead, as he interviews neighbors and friends in the isolated community, he assembles a portrait of not only Robert, Alan and Frances, but of their once wealthy family, its tragedies and eccentricities. The Luxton family becomes a detail in the landscape of an almost vanished way of life in one of the most mysterious corners of England.