Birdsong - Rilegato

Faulks, Sebastian

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ISBN 10: 067943545X ISBN 13: 9780679435457

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1996

Riassunto

In 1910, Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, journeys to France on business, becomes embroiled in a series of traumatic events, including a clandestine love affair, and never returns home, only to be trapped amid the horrors of the First World War. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a prefect novel—just a great one."—Simon Schama, New Yorker

"An amazing book—among the most stirringly erotic I have read for years...I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit."—Quentin Crewe, Daily Mail

"This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again."—Andrew James, Sunday Express

"One of the finest novels of the last 40 years."—Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday

"This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it."—Nigel Watts, Time Out
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

His first novel, A Trick of Light, was published in 1984. By this time he had become a feature writer on the Sunday Telegraph and in 1986 moved to the new national daily paper the Independent as its literary editor. His second novel, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, was published in 1989. In 1991 he gave up journalism to concentrate on writing. In 1992 his third novel, A Fool's Alphabet, was published in London, and in 1993 he published Birdsong to huge critical acclaim. It has so far sold more than 400,000 copies in Britain. In January 1997 a television and bookshop poll among British readers placed it in their top fifty books of the century. He was named Author of the Year in the British Book Awards of 1995. He has since published a nonfiction book,

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067943545X
• ISBN 13: 9780679435457
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 402