A Soldier of the Great War
by:
Mark Helprin (author)
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.
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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151836000 (0151836000)
ASIN: 151836000
Publish date: May 6th 1991
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 792
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
War,
Military,
Modern
Never was I MORE RELIEVED to be done with reading a book as I was with this one. This tale, in which Alessandro Giuliani, an aging First World War veteran in his dotage, speaks about his life to a young lad (Nicolo) in his late teens while the 2 make their way on foot from the countryside to Rome du...
It's a great book, but Helprin just can't help talking to the reader, which, some of the time, is ok, but sometimes it just drove me nuts. But I was expecting that, given the structure of the book (and old soldier lectures, teaches, and harangues a young man while on a long walk together) so I just ...
Never was I MORE RELIEVED to be done with reading a book as I was with this one. This tale, in which Alessandro Giuliani, an aging First World War veteran in his dotage, speaks about his life to a young lad (Nicolo) in his late teens while the 2 make their way on foot from the countryside to Rome d...
yearly reread (listen)
Skimmed some, wandered in and out, but was always drawn back in and wanted to stay with Alessandro to the end. Another of Helprin's brilliant characterizations, intimately realized while running the gamut of a lifetime of events, from the most personal to the epic.From Booklist: "Helprin has a great...
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