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"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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20160531 NEW LIST, World War, 1939-1945, Biographical, FICTION, Literary, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Historical, Fiction, Irish Authors, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, biographical, Authors, fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Biographical, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, generalPeople
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)Times
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Country Road, a Tree: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Memorial Prize for Historical Fiction
2016, Transworld Publishers Limited
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