A country road, a tree a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399567582 (softcover)
- ISBN: 0399567585
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Physical Description:
text (large print)
435 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. - Edition: Large print ed.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Random House Large Print, [2016]
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Subject: | Beckett, Samuel -- 1906-1989 -- Fiction Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Fiction World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Paris -- Fiction |
Genre: | Large type books. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Large type books. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | LP F BAK (Text) | DCL156119 | Large print | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war. When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the hardships yet stubborn vibrancy at the heart of Europe during the Nazis' rise to power; his friendships with James Joyce and other luminaries; his quietly passionate devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; his secret work for the French Resistance and narrow escapes from the Gestapo; his flight from occupied Paris to the countryside; and the rubble of his life after liberation. And through it all we are witness to workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express his experience of this shattered world. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination, and a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into timeless art"--