The Soldier's Return

Melvyn Bragg

ISBN 10: 0340751002 / ISBN 13: 9780340751008

Edité par Sceptre, 1999

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A fine copy of a highly acclaimed semi autobiographical account of the trauma of a returning soldier after World War II. SIGNED by author 3/2000. Cover and inner pages as new, some foxing in the end papers, slight curve on front top of jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Soldier's Return
• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0340751002
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780340751008
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the 'Forgotten War' in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds little has changed, as far as his own limited prospects go. In his absence, though, his young family has altered immensely. His wife Ellen has found a sense of self worth in her war time jobs, and doesn't want to return to her old life. Their six-year-old son Joe, accustomed to his mother's undivided love and attention, doesn't welcome the father he barely remembers. And Sam finds the traumatic scenes he witnessed in Burma have changed him too, making the confines of this working class Cumbrian town stifling. The result is a family in turmoil, which reaches breaking point when Sam resolves to emigrate to Australia. Based on Melvyn Bragg's own family and strongly evocative of its era as well as the Cumbrian landscape, this taut and powerful novel sits firmly in the tradition of his hugely popular Cumbrian novels.

À propos de l?auteur

Melvyn Bragg's first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965 and since then his novels have included The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Credo and The Maid of Buttermere. He has also written several works of non-fiction including Speak for England, an oral history of the twentieth century, and Rich, a biography of Richard Burton. He was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton's Nelson Tomlinson Shool and at Oxford where he read history. He is controller of Arts at LWT and President of the National Campaign for the Arts, and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He lives in London and Cumbria.