A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg

A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg

Joe Richardson is getting to know his father, who recently returned from the war and is trying to rebuild his own identity as well as shape that of his son. Joe is the most important thing to his parents but can they put him on the path to happiness when they're not sure how to be happy themselves?

Alive with autobiographical energies and characters of flesh-and-blood immediacy.. deeply humane and acutely truthful - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

This is a splendid book - even better than the first of what I hope will be a trilogy ... Bragg's characters are real, their relationships and problems acutely and sympathetically observed. Never mawkish, he knows the people he writes about and how they lived in working class, postwar Britain. He gets better with every novel. Dammit. - John Humphrys, Guardian Books of the Year

[A] perceptive, sparely-written novel ... The trace of memory, Bragg shows us, is an enduring inheritance for each and every one of us. - Lisa Jardine, The Times

'Sam Richardson, haunted by memories of his wartime service in Burma, has decided to make a go of his old life in Wigton. A Son of War traces with painful clarity the personal cost of Sam's rebuilding of his family life, with Ellen his wife, and his beloved son Joe. But Sam's is not the only clear voice in this perceptive, sparely-written novel ... the voices of Ellen, and above all that of Joe thread luminously through the story - intense, moving descants to Sam's shaping melody ... As a novelist, Bragg has always had a remarkable ear for strong first person women's voices. In A Son of War the effect of this is to animate the silent struggle conducted between Ellen and Sam for their son's lo

Melvyn Bragg's first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965 and since then his novels have included The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Credo, The Maid of Buttermere and The Soldier's Return, which was published to huge critical acclaim in 1999 and won the WHSmith Literary Award. He has also written several works of non-fiction including Speak for England, an oral history of the twentieth century, Rich, a biography of Richard Burton and On Giants' Shoulders, a history of science based on his BBC radio series. He was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton's Nelson Tomlinson Shool and at Oxford where he read history. He is controller of Arts at LWT and President of the National Campaign for the Arts, and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He lives in London and Cumbria.

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ISBN 13	9780340734155
ISBN 10	0340734159
Titel	A Son of War
Autor	Melvyn Bragg
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Hodder & Stoughton
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-06-21
Seitenanzahl	432
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