A country road, a tree : a novel / Jo Baker.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016Edition: First United States editionDescription: 304 p. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781101947180
- 1101947187
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Chanute Public Library Adult Fiction | Chanute Public Library | Adult Books | F (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34316002447639 |
"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"--
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