| Peace Contributor(s): Bausch, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307388581 ISBN-13: 9780307388582 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: A taut, poignant tale of war, trust, and salvation, "Peace" is a riveting contribution from one of America's most acclaimed novelists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.24" W x 7.98" (0.46 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This small masterpiece with the same emotional force and moral complexity as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Tolstoy's Hadji Murad" (Colm T ib n) inspired the film Recon. Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. As they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy. |