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> Tag: Siegfried Sassoon

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Minty Alley by CLR James

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandr Hemon

No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

March 14, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Lazarus Project This novel came out in 2008 in the middle of the 2008 presidential election. That doesn’t really have much to do with the plot here, but the novel makes several references to the Iraq war as a backdrop to parts of the present action, as well as the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. In addition, the novel spends a lot of time in early 20th century America, with a special focus on Eastern European immigrants in the US. The novel is mostly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Aleksandr Hemon, Alice Hoffman, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Siegfried Sassoon

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Aleksandr Hemon, Alice Hoffman, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Siegfried Sassoon ·
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“I think I saw our ghosts”: a devastating modern WWI novel

Regeneration by Pat Barker

June 11, 2021 by tiny_bookbot 3 Comments

Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls was one of my favorite novels of 2018; I read it after teaching The Iliad for the first time, fascinated by the idea of a novel that told the events of the epic primarily from a feminine point of view: namely, that of Briseis, the Trojan captive that Agamemnon and Achilles quarrel over. It was also my first introduction to Pat Barker in general, and was I ever appreciative of that when I learned that Barker had also written a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, Pat Barker, Regeneration, Siegfried Sassoon, WWI

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, Pat Barker, Regeneration, Siegfried Sassoon, WWI ·
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The Art and Poetry of War

Above the Dreamless Dead by various authors edited by Chris Duffy

January 8, 2016 by Melina 8 Comments

I teach British Literature to 17 and 18 year olds of various levels and degrees of interest (in different classes).  Something that I’ve noticed over the years is that just about all my students feel something when we read World War I poetry. I don’t know if it’s because it’s visceral,  perhaps they appreciate the simple plain language, or maybe they can relate to the poems where the young authors express regret and naivete about their involvement in the war.  Because come on, I remember […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Above the Dreamless Dead, CBR8, Melina, poetry, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, WWI, WWI poetry

Melina's CBR8 Review No:5 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: Above the Dreamless Dead, CBR8, Melina, poetry, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, WWI, WWI poetry ·
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