The Perfect Golden Circle, Benjamin Myers
The Perfect Golden Circle, Benjamin Myers
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The Perfect Golden Circle

Author: Benjamin Myers

Narrator: Tim Key

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/23/2022


Synopsis

Summer 1989, deep in the English countryside—during a time of mass unemployment, class war, and rebellion . . .

Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men—Calvert, an ex-soldier traumatized by his experience in the Falklands War, and his affable friend Redbone—set out nightly in a decrepit camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.

Under cover of darkness, they traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns, painstakingly avoiding damaging the wheat to yield designs so intricate that their overnight appearances inspire awe amongst a mystified public.

And as the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation—and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold.

But as harvest-time beckons—and as media and the authorities begin to take too much interest in their work—Calvert and Redbone have to race against time to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived: the Honeycomb Double Helix.

About Benjamin Myers

Benjamin Myers is a British former music journalist whose work appeared in leading publications, including NME, Melody Maker, MOJO, and Kerrang. He has since gone on to become one of the UK's leading novelists, with several award-winning books, including The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction; The Offing, which was a Times (of London) and BBC Radio book of the year; and Pig Iron, which won the Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published poetry and short fiction, and has continued to write journalism for such publications as The Guardian, New Statesman, and New Scientist. He lives in England's Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom on April 07, 2022

Benjamin Myers, you slippery bastard. The best writer in the UK expands his range once again with another first class novel which will be just as surprising to fans as The Offing proved. Two men - SAS veteran Calvert and a sort of old hippy (though he'd likely be offended at the description), Redbon......more

Goodreads review by Julie on October 11, 2022

The Perfect Golden Circle is the perfect short story. That's precisely how it landed with me—a captured moment in time, an excerpt from a much longer narrative of these central characters, how they came together, what would happen to as their lives rolled along... and yet it is a novel, if only beca......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 14, 2021

Dieser Roman ist eine ruhig erzählte, von Bildern der Natur Englands geprägte Geschichte mit zwei vom Leben gebeutelten Protagonisten und poetischem, atmosphärischem Schreibstil. Redbone und Calvert erschaffen heimlich im Süden Englands im Jahr 1989 Kornkreise in einsamen Nächten. Die Handlung der G......more

Goodreads review by Gedankenlabor on September 16, 2021

>>...es gibt Felder voller Geschichten, Geschichten, die Jahrhundert für Jahrhundert erzählt wurden, alle übereinandergeschichtet, genau wie die Gebeine derer, die das Land einst pflügten und beackerten und die Ernten einbrachten und einander ihre Geschichten erzählten...<< „Der perfekte Kreis“ von B......more

Goodreads review by Fraser on July 07, 2022

Two counter-culture friends, bonded together through their art and quirks of personality, undergo an ambitious project of crop circles in ‘89, near London, attempting to outdo anything before constructed. It’s a quiet, odd kind of story. Their relationship is very endearing. Neither militant or full-......more