Small Wars (P.S.) - Softcover

Jones, Sadie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061929891 ISBN 13: 9780061929892

Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA, 2011

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Book by Jones Sadie

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Críticas:

"To this grave account of degradation--from great wars to small, from certainty to doubt, from romance to resignation--Jones brings surprising reserves of energy and finesse."--Donna Rifkind, Washington Post

"Ambitious and thematically charged...A timely novel, as well as a harrowing one"--Christian Science Monitor

"A taut and transfixing novel... [Jones is] a gifted young author."--Boston Globe

"A darkly compelling account of honor and disillusionment with contemporary resonance...a confirmation of [Jones's] considerable talent."--Kirkus Reviews

"In lean, penetrating prose...Jones serves her themes most potently with an unflinching tumble of violent encounters that effectively transform Hal's liberation...into a haunting act of transcendence."--New York Times Book Review

"Manages to be both rich and sparse...with just enough carefully selected detail to breathe vividness into the novel...In what reads as a quiet, calm work, Jones captures the essence of dehumanized warfare and renders inescapable parallels in a more modern world."--Denver Post

"What SMALL WARS shows us, and quite masterfully, is on how many fronts war takes its toll. Love, trust and intimacy in marriage become casualties. But so does war itself--our belief in it, that it's right and just and necessary; that it solves anything...Told with strikingly clear and muscular prose...Jones's narration is powerfully restrained, with a great deal of subterranean tension."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

Reseña del editor:

“Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her.” —Tracy Chevalier, author ofGirl with the Pearl Earring

Fresh off her triumphantly assured debut novel The Outcast, award-winning author Sadie Jones has again delivered a quiet masterpiece inSmall Wars. Set on the colonial, war-torn island of Cyprus in 1956, Jones tells the story of a young solider, Hal Treherne, and the effects of this “small war” on him, his wife Clara, and their family. Reminiscent of classic tales of love and war such as The English Patient and Atonement, Jones’s gripping novel also calls to mind the master works of Virginia Woolf and their portrayal of the quiet desperation of a marriage in crisis.Small Wars is at once a deeply emotional, meticulously researched work of historical fiction and a profound meditation on war-time atrocities committed both on and off the battlefield.

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• Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061929891
• ISBN 13: 9780061929892
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400