War Stories - Brossura

Faulks, Sebastian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099268620 ISBN 13: 9780099268628

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1999

Riassunto

In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier`s experience from call-ups battle and comradship to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truely international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Issac Babel and Ernest Hemingway , Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O`Brian Julian Barnes and Louis de Barnieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the horors of war.

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Descrizione del libro:

‘An anthology that tries, at the close of a century that has made an art-form of killing, to make sense of it all.’ Guardian

L'autore:

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099268620
• ISBN 13: 9780099268628
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 416