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A Soldier of the Great War

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/10/2007

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From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin comes a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man--a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe--tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's experiences, realizes that this magnificent tale is not merely a story: it's a recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and, above all, a love song for his family.
ISBN:
9781602833128
9781602833128
Category:
Historical fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-10-2007
Publisher:
Audiogo
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
24
Dimensions (mm):
152x137x46mm
Weight:
0.45kg

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