Stolen Marches - Rilegato

Crackanthorpe, David

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0747222495 ISBN 13: 9780747222491

Casa editrice: Headline, 1999

Riassunto

For Stephen, after unofficially volunteering to join the Resistance, the war has provided a spectrum of powerfully contrasting experiences, from the intensity of an obsessive love affair to the fear of imprisonment and execution by the Nazis.

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Recensione:

`A fine enough evocation of the awful, bloody muddle of postwar affairs' Observer

'An ambitious...historical thriller, which vividly describes the end of the war' Independent on Sunday

'Crackenthorpe...weaves a complicated plotline around his romantic hero...but his laconic prose sidesteps both sentimentality and derring-do' Guardian

'ambitious...thriller, which vividly describes the end of the war' The Times

'...a thoughtful and evocative reminder of how the mid-century upheaval of the war still casts a dark, foreboding shadow over France...Crackanthorpe's first novel, Stolen Marches, stood critical comparison with Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong; this might be compared with Charlotte Gray, and should appeal to the same market.' The Bookseller

'The morally and politically ambiguous world of post-Liberation France provides a gripping backdrop for Mr Crackanthorpe's first book.' Yorkshire Evening Press

'a relish for the colourful, telling piece of detail, some sharp characterisation...a refusal to prettify or simplify events and their effects and, at the same time, a respect for a good story and a well-orchestrated plot...a thoughtful, ambiguous and unshowy reprise about the way humans behave after a great watershed in history.' The Times

'Crackanthorpe utillises the chaotic backgorund of newly liberated France in 1945 to dazzling effect' The Times

'despite the immaculate quality in the writing, the action is neither plotty nor ploddy...Everywhere, the prose keeps up a continous murmur of threat and risk. All France is here, and treachery, love, self-sacrifice, accident and ambition tighten the story's tensions. This is the thriller of the year so far; the thinking man's Jack Higgins' Mail on Sunday

'a strong debut...reminiscent of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong' Daily Mail

Descrizione del libro:

STOLEN MARCHES, won the Society of Authors Sagittarius Prize and was shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel award

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• Editore: Headline
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0747222495
• ISBN 13: 9780747222491
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352