A Soldier of the Great War Contributor(s): Helprin, Mark (Author), Colacci, David (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0792750772 ISBN-13: 9780792750772 Publisher: Audiogo OUR PRICE: $38.66 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Sound Library |
Physical Information: 3 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Italy - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin comes a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war. Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro s experiences, realizes that this magnificent tale is not merely a story: it s a recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and, above all, a love song for his family." |