A Soldier of the Great War

Helprin, Mark

ISBN 10: 0151836000 / ISBN 13: 9780151836000

Edité par Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991

N° de réf. du vendeur 0151836000-4-18272314

Synopsis :

Book by Helprin Mark

Présentation de l'éditeur:

From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : A Soldier of the Great War
Éditeur : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Date d'édition : 1991
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Fair