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Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks: Used
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1999-02-02
- Pages
- 399
- ISBN
- 9780375501692
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
037550169X
ISBN-13
9780375501692
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038662570
Product Key Features
Book Title
Charlotte Gray : a Novel
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
War & Military, General, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
25.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-033658
Reviews
British reviewers' praise for Charlotte Gray: "It would take a mile-long essay to do justice to the many virtues of Sebastian Faulks's wonderful new novel. This riveting account of a young Scotswoman's odyssey through wartime London, and on into a perilous secret mission in Vichy France, deserves the highest praise. . . . Proustian cogitations, masterful narrative, and zestful pen portraits. A beautiful, near-masterpiece."--The Independent on Sunday "One of the most impressive novelists of his generation . . . who is growing in authority with every book." --Sunday Telegraph "A worthy successor to Birdsong. It is hard to imagine anyone who enjoyed the last novel not finding great interest and pleasure in this one. In Charlotte, Faulks has created a wonderfully complex and engaging heroine, with whom it is hard not to fall a little in love."--Daily Express "Faulks has the rare gift of being popular and literary at the same time. Its page-turning quality in no way undermines the darkness that it describes."--Literary Review "Faulks is beyond doubt a master."--Financial Times Praise for Birdsong: "Overpowering and beautiful . . . A great novel."--Simon Schama, The New Yorker "The ordinary superlatives do not suffice in this case. Birdsong moved me more profoundly than anything I've read in years. A deeply compassionate, utterly thrilling work by a master of the form."--Frank Conroy "Worthy in every way of its honors and success . . . so powerful as to be almost unbearable."--George Garrett, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A contemporary novel that . . . earns a place on the shelf with true literature. . . . Superb storytelling and craftsmanship."--People
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Synopsis
Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success ofBirdsongis written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war. It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him--but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life. Faulks's novel is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason. It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied, so-called Free France. As the men, women and children of Charlotte's small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in wartime France is finally exposed. When private lives and public events fatally collide, the roots of the characters' lives are torn up and exposed. These harrowing scenes are presented with the passion and narrative force that readers will recall from Birdsong. Charlotte Gray will attract even more readers to Faulks's remarkable fiction.
LC Classification Number
PR6056.A89C48 1999
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- e***c (2511)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseExcellent quality, perfect condition, great value, these mini books get me every time, my mistake I didn’t pay closer attention. Still a great book.
- k***m (49)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBook arrived very quickly and in great condition just as described. Excellent value and quality, great seller!
- p***w (3508)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat item! Quick delivery! A+ seller!