Birdsong (Collectors Library)

Birdsong (Collectors Library)

by SebastianFaulks (Author)

Synopsis

Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself. "An overpowering and beautiful novel...Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one" (Simon Schama)

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Publisher: Collector's Library
Published: 01 Sep 2013

ISBN 10: 1909621013
ISBN 13: 9781909621015

Media Reviews
'An overpowering and beautiful novel ... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one.' Simon Schama
Author Bio
Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. His French trilogy - The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) - established him in the front rank of British novelists. UK sales of Birdsong exceed 2,500,000 copies, and for this novel he was named Author of the Year by the British Book Awards in 1995. It is regularly voted one of the nation's favourite books. Charlotte Gray has also sold over a million copies and was filmed with Cate Blanchett in the main part.