| Edition |
First U.S. Edition. |
| Description |
519 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-505) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. One Night in the Lives of Five Writers : September 26, 1940 -- Newsreel -- 7 p.m. : Blackout -- 10 p.m. : Fire -- 1 a.m. : Rescue -- 6 a.m. : All Clear -- Part II. The Blitz : September 1940-May 1941 -- "War, she thought, was sex" -- "Ireland can be dementing" -- "How we shall survive this I don't know" -- "So much else is on the way to be lost" -- Part III. The Lull : June 1941-February 1944 -- " You are the ultimate of something" -- "Can pain and danger exist?" -- "Only at night I cry" -- "Alas, what hate everywhere" -- Part IV. Approaching Victory : June 1944-August 1945 -- "Droning things, mindlessly making for you" -- "A collective intoxication of happiness" -- "The days were listless and a flop" -- Part V. Surveying the Ruins : Postwar Europe, 1945-9 -- "The magic Irish light and the soft air" -- "Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland" -- "O, maybe we'll live a while in Killala" -- "The returning memory of a dream long forgotten" -- "The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna" -- Part VI. Mid-century : Middle Age -- " We could have been happy for a lifetime" -- "Let us neither of us forget ... what reality feels like and eternity is" -- "The world my wilderness, its caves my home." |
| Summary |
As poetic as it is enlightening this detailed biography of five literary figures is achingly beautiful in its depiction of the disturbing everyday realities of war. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- England -- London.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects.
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Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
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Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
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Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958.
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Green, Henry, 1905-1973.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Spiel, Hilde.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Schrijvers.
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Engels.
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Bellettrie.
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Literatuur (fictie en non-fictie)
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| ISBN |
9781608199846 |
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1608199843 |
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9781408830444 hardback |
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1408830442 hardback |
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9781408841037 paperback |
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1408841037 paperback |
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