Nineteen Twenty-One (Vintage War) Exp

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2014
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It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes in the form of two very different women. A visit to the hallucinatory wreckage of post-war Flanders brings strange repercussions in its wake. Everyone is in some way damaged by the terrible years of the war; in what sense can art be made out of such horror?

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It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes in the form of two very different women. A visit to the hallucinatory wreckage of post-war Flanders brings strange repercussions in its wake. Everyone is in some way damaged by the terrible years of the war; in what sense can art be made out of such horror?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 03 Apr 2014
ISBN 10: 009959756X
ISBN 13: 9780099597568
Book Overview: 'Rarely has such heat been associated with so strong a wind ... Hour after hour passed and not a drop fell ... on the parched and cracking ground' The Times, July 25th, 1921 To mark the centenary of the First World War, Vintage is launching a unique collection of war fiction. April 2014 will see the publication of twelve works by the greatest writers of the last century, each tackling this most powerful and universal of subjects.

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Thorpe offers an immaculate re-recording of long-dead voices Observer As always, Adam Thorpe displays a gift for revealing the suggestively sinister in a pastoral setting. Independant his complex, beautifully written, witty and insightful novel never loses sight of its theme Daily Mail Thorpe's First World War is not like any other Herald-Glasgow

Author Bio

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories and six poetry collections and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012). www.adamthorpe.net