In Memoriam: A novel
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Mar 7, 2023
Genre:
historical
Words:
107401
Annotations:
| 993 | 2/3/2024 12:01:13 |
You’ll write more poems. They are not lost. You are the poetry.
| 1531 | 2/3/2024 16:29:58 |
My leg is healing nicely. Soon I will have to go back. I am terrified. I wish to God I could see you again before I die.
| 1599 | 2/3/2024 16:36:44 |
although it took him two days to die.
| 5639 | 2/7/2024 15:05:33 |
I am sure Lawrence should have found three good things in his own death.
Pages:
460
Book Details
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Description:
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.” —Lev Grossman, best-selling author of The MagiciansIt’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting.
Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle—an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood—without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so...