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A Soldier of the Great War - hardcover, 0151836000, Mark Helprin
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Artist
- Helprin, Mark
- ISBN
- 9780151836000
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151836000
ISBN-13
9780151836000
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56283
Product Key Features
Book Title
Soldier of the Great War
Number of Pages
800 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1991
Topic
General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.3 in
Item Weight
43.7 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
90-045987
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
In summer 1964, a distinguished-looking gentleman in his seventies dismounts on principle from a streetcar that was to carry him from Rome to a distant village, instead accompanying on foot a boy denied a fare. As they walk, he tells the boy the story of his life. A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alesandro Giuliani found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of World War I. The war led to an onerous tour of duty, inadvertent desertion, near-execution, forced labor, service high in the Italian Alps that took advantage of his (and Helprin's) skill at mountain climbing, capture by the enemy, and return home, dispossessed of most of his friends and family. Along the way, he gains, loses, and eventually rediscovers love. This rousingly good story of survival is all the more remarkable in the telling. The language is rich without cloying, complex yet luminous in Helprin's best style. In a number of thoughtful philosophical passages as engaging as any adventure story, Alesandro struggles to reconcile his appreciation of beauty and his religious faith with the horror around him. That he finally persuades us to believe in a "God without any hope, in a God of splendor and terror" is testimony to the indomitable human spirit. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/91. -Barbara Hoffert, With energetic, often lyrical prose capable of poetic images of great intensity, coupled with an antic imagination unleashed in scenes of high adventure and bizarre and droll events, Helprin's ( Winter's Tale ) dramatic, sweeping narrative focuses on one man's experiences during a turbulent period of history. Septuagenarian Alessandro Giuliani, scion of a cultured Roman family, looks back on a life whose direction was irrevocably altered and thereafter shadowed by WW I. Idealistic Alessandro first sees action in the Tyrol (giving Helprin the opportunity to display his knowledge of mountain climbing), is part of a "phantom" unit sent to Sicily to capture deserters, becomes a deserter himself and later a prisoner sentenced to death--in short, undergoes experiences that encapsulate war's many horrors, ironies and tragedies. As counterpoint to brutal battle scenes, there is dark comedy in the character of the demented dwarf Orfeo Quatta, who pursues his awesome responsibilities at the Ministry of War with capricious mania. Helprin uses Giorgioni's painting La Tempesta to convey the novel's message: that women, with the promise of love and new life, are civilization's salvation in the aftermath of war. The author himself again demonstrates his ability to create vivid settings: magnificent landscapes teeming with activity and colored by extremes of weather, illuminated with the clarity of a classical painting . While the plot early on sometimes seems padded and digressive, the reader will soon find Alessandro's story a gripping, poignant and universally relevant moral fable. 125,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; paperback rights to Avon; author tour.
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Table Of Content
i. Rome, August 1 ii. Race to the Sea 94 iii. His Portrait When He Was Young 211 iv. The 19th River Guard 249 v. The Moon and the Bonfires 297 vi. Stella Maris 388 vii. A Soldier of the Line 490 viii. The Winter Palace 634 ix. La Tempesta 733 x. La Rondine 782
Synopsis
An old man's magnificent tale of love and war-a recapitulation of a life and a reckoning with mortality told by one of America's most acclaimed novelists.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.E4775
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