Anne Boston Wave Me Goodbye (Paperback) Virago Modern Classics

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Wave Me GoodbyeCondition: NewEAN: 9780349012612ISBN: 9780349012612Publisher: Virago Press LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/29/2019Item Height: 197mmItem Length: 127mmItem Width: 27mmItem Weight: 290gAuthor: Anne BostonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Stories of the Second World WarISBN-10: 034901261XDescription: 'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER 'Each story in Wave Me Goodbye is a relic of the Second World War' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is as stark and acidic a collection of war stories as you will read . . . Stripped bare of the sentimentalism attached to love in wartime' SCOTSMAN This collection of wartime stories includes some of the finest writers of a generation. War had traditionally been seen as a masculine occupation, but these stories show how women were equal if different participants. Here, war is less about progress on the frontline of battle than about the daily struggle to keep homes, families and relationships alive; to snatch pleasure from danger, and strength from shared experience. The stories are about saying goodbye to husbands, lovers, brothers and sons - and sometimes years later trying to remake their lives anew. By turn comical, stoical, compassionate, angry and subversive, these intensely individual voices bring a human dimension to the momentous events that reverberated around them and each opens a window on to a hidden landscape of war. Writers include: Jean Rhys, Beryl Bainbridge, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Smith, Rosamond Lehmann, Barbara Pym, Angela Thirkell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy Parker, Doris Lessing, Olivia Manning, Rose Macaulay and Stevie SmithCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: Virago Modern ClassicsGenre: FictionTopic: Classic Fiction, Literary Criticism, Historical Fiction, Biography, History, Military HistoryRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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