"Mr Weston's Good Wine" is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift of awareness falls upon a dozen memorable characters. During the book a child knocked down by his car is miraculously brought back to life; the sign 'Mr Weston's Good Wine' lights up the sky; and the villagers soon discover that the wine he sells is no ordinary wine.
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T F Powys was a member of a distinguished literary family and the descendant of three generations of country parson. Although born in Derbyshire he spent almost the whole of his life in a remote Dorset village, where all his works were written. He died in 1953.
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A Thoughtful, Humorous Theodicy,
By Curley Penneywell, Jr. (Cut and Shoot, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mister Weston's Good Wine (Hardcover)
Although not one of the towering books of the twentieth century, this is surely one of the most satisfying. The Mr. Weston of the title is no one less than God Himself, who visits the English village of Folly Down in the guise of a travelling wine vendor. Accompanied by his assistant, the Archangel Michael, he makes his way among the inhabitants of Folly Down, doing justice to the wicked and comforting the afflicted as far as he is able. However, Mr. Weston finds sorting out the problems of human merit and desert as puzzling and difficult as do the rest of us. But in the end good and justice, of a sort, prevail.While this is definitely a novel about God and His relationship to His creatures, it is far from orthodox. In fact, although Powys takes his subject quite seriously and movingly, he writes with a sly, down to earth humor. Unfortunately, this may work against the book's ever becoming popular--it's too irreverent and racy for the piously stuffy, too thoughtful and honest for the facile unbeliever. However, anyone--believer, agnostic, or atheist--who is curious about how a benevolent God might manage His less than benevolent creation, or how such a God might even become accountable to His creatures, will find this book rewarding. Heck, even this good ole Southern Baptist boy from Cut and Shoot, TX, liked readin it!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Magic and Mystery in Dorset,
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This review is from: MR Weston's Good Wine. T.F. Powys (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
Theodore Francis Powys was the son of an Anglican clergyman, one of three writers in the family. Most of his best work is in his short stories; the novels are inclined to be shapeless and uneven. This is the exception.
T.F. Powys made his fiction out of his life-long quarrel with God. He was haunted by the beauty of Jesus and the Gospels; tormented by their irrelation to the Way of the World; unable to accept any known theological "solution" to this disparity. Living almost all his life in a small village in Dorset, he saw plenty of human stupidity, brutishness, violence, exploitativeness, selfishness, cruelty. Like Job he looked up at the massing clouds and asked, "Why?" In some books he gives human wickedness heart-breaking shapes; but here he paints almost entirely in bright colours, shadowed only by his acceptance that, for some people, and for some problems, darkness and dissolution may be the kindest or the only answer. This story radiates magic; while you read it the world is suspended like the Courtiers in "Sleeping Beauty". Mr. Weston the wine-merchant arrives in the village of Folly Down. Mr. Weston is... well, it doesn't take much guessing. Luke Bird embodies the Gospel; Tamar is unbound natural goodness, a figure from Blake. Her father the Vicar is sorrow that can never be healed. Mr. Weston's coming precipitates the solution to all the villagers' intertwined problems; the good end happily, the bad end unhappily, and the author smiles wistfully as he ties up the loose ends. It would have made a wonderful movie back in the 30's or 40's, a kindly, grave, wise comforting fantasy brushed at times by dark shadows like blackbirds' wings.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Mister Weston's Good Wine,
By dino toniolo (Switzerland (in the italian speaking part)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mister Weston's Good Wine (Hardcover)
It is a very good book. It is a pity that is almost impossible to find it, even in english (italian would be better).Kind regards
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