All This Will Be Lost - Softcover

Payton, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447242246 ISBN 13: 9781447242246

Verlag: Picador, 2015

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Extremely well written . . . compelling and surprising . . . a powerful, engaging book. Throughout, Payton's writing is exceptional: lyrical in its descriptions of beauty or memories of a better time, and hauntingly stark in its depictions of the horrors of war. It is both a war story that condemns war and a love story that shows how love may be the only thing that can redeem the terrible consequences of war. * Vancouver Sun * A rich and evocative tale of life and death, love and faith, determination and resilience . . . Heartbreaking and yet inspirational in its moving depiction of the indomitable nature of the human spirit, All This Will Be Lost explores how war impacts on ordinary people and the extraordinary sacrifices they are prepared to make . . . This is an emotionally powerful and resonant story packed with painstaking research, a fascinating slice of little-known American history and an intimate portrait of how people cope under intolerable pressure . . . and how far they will go for love. * Lancashire Evening Post * An epic war story . . . powerful . . . The pages of this book practically turn themselves . . . By turns greathearted and grim, All This Will Be Lost probes the reasons for, and the consequences of, the human practice of war . . . this story may haunt you long after you've put the book down. * Seattle Times * A beautifully written love story and an engrossing adventure tale . . . All This Will Be Lost will have readers rooting for the lovers, even as it moves them to tears. * Toronto Star * Thoughtful, meticulously observed. * Washington Independent Review of Books * Powerful . . . Payton keeps his prose taut so that nothing diverts the reader from the suspense of Easley and his compatriot's struggle to stay alive. Gripping. * National Post, Canada * A suspenseful, beautifully researched title that readers will want to devour in one sitting . . . Bravo! * Library Journal * A great-hearted, beautifully written, and utterly riveting novel. * Ron Rash * Top-notch . . . Payton has delivered a richly detailed, vividly resonant chronicle of war's effect on ordinary people's lives. * Publishers Weekly * A harrowing, beautiful book. * David Macfarlane * Part adventure tale, part love story, this beautifully written novel offers a moving portrait of a couple whose lives are forever changed by the only battle of WWII to take place on American soil. * Booklist * Lyric and deeply moving . . . a heart-stopping, heart-rending read. * Ellen Feldman, Orange Prize shortlisted author of Scotsboro, Next to Love and The Boy Who Loved Anne Fran * Gripping, meditative . . . Payton explores [a] nearly forgotten chapter of American history. * New York Times * A haunting love story . . . engaging and unsettling. * USA Today * Harrowing . . . moving and evocative novel. A breathtaking evocation of landscape is coupled with a compassionate exploration of the human heart. * Daily Mail * A perfect storm of a wartime love story. * The Times * This is sweeping epic romance, wartorn drama: think Cold Mountain, think The English Patient . . . * Radio 2, Claudia Winkleman show *

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A stunning tale of love and survival against all odds, for fans of Cold Mountain. Published in hardback as The Wind Is Not a River. April 1943. In the bloody turmoil of war, John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden and growing conflict: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. But when his plane is shot down he must either surrender or struggle to survive in a harsh wilderness. Three thousand miles to the south, Helen Easley cannot accept her husband's disappearance-an absence that exposes her sheltered, untested life. Desperate to find and be reunited with him, she sets out on a remarkable journey from the safety of her Seattle home to the war in the north. An evocative, richly atmospheric tale of life and death, commitment and sacrifice, All This Will Be Lost, perfect for fans of Cold Mountain, is a gripping story of survival that illuminates the fragility of life and the fierce power of love. 'Beautifully written, lyrical and elegiac, [this] is a novel you must read . . . John Easley's struggle to survive and his wife Helen's struggle to find him form the most triumphant and heartbreaking love story I've read in years' David Vann, author of LEGEND OF A SUICIDE

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447242246
• ISBN 13: 9781447242246
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 353