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Anonymous
Posted July 10, 2008
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Art student friends find their friendships and future hopes changed forever during that fateful summer of 1914. Elinor Brooke holds fast to her artistic ambitions. Paul Tarrant joins the Belgian Red Cross, finding himself both an orderly and ambulance driver near Ypres. Their letters to each other give telling evidence of how their `work¿ infuses their daily lives and, as Barker has done in previous books, a remarkable cast of secondary characters, both real and fictional, bring your sense of time and place into remarkable clarity. Barker¿s one of my favorite people writing today. Can art live during a cataclysm like the Great War? That is one question a reader ponders in this remarkable book about young lives thrust into war. Two more questions: If you chose to hang onto your old life and independence will you be diminished in your own eyes and the eyes of others? What will loving someone mean in a world gone mad?
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