L'Enfant de l'étranger
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782226249739 (2226249737)
Publish date: August 21st 2013
Publisher: Albin Michel
Pages no: 724
Edition language: French
The Stranger's Child is divided into five parts taking place in different eras spanning over a century. It concerns itself with the mystery surrounding the life of Cecil Valance, a young poet whose life was cut short in World War I but who was made famous posthumously by his poem "Two Acres". For wh...
It was not perfect, but it was lovely. A tale told in five loosely connected parts, all linked by one character who did not even live to see the second act. Cecil Valance, while very young when killed in the great war, managed to touch many lives both directly [spoiler] he slept with many men and e...
It was not perfect, but it was lovely. A tale told in five loosely connected parts, all linked by one character who did not even live to see the second act. Cecil Valance, while very young when killed in the great war, managed to touch many lives both directly he slept with many men and even so...
Reminds me of Brideshead Revisited, no?
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/666788474
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