Darkness Falls From The Air - Softcover
Darkness Falls from the Air is the classic novel of the London Blitz, capturing the chaos and absurdity of life during the bombardment. The laconic and cynical civil servant. Bill Sarratt, struggles against dusty bureaucracy at the Ministry by day and. after sundown, against the absurd infidelity of his wife Marcia. In Sarratt's opinion, her literary poseur lover Stephen is a third-rate ham-actor of a man and the affair will burn itself out if only he doesn't force the issue. With an ostentatious lack of concern, the trio wine and dine expensively, occasionally sauntering out into the blitz with cheerful remarks about the shattered night-life of the West End; 'Air raids always seem to make people get tight'. But beneath the false insouciance lies the real strain of a war that has firmly wrapped them all in its embrace. Wit may crackle at the same pace as buildings burn, but personal tragedy constantly lurks somewhere appallingly close at hand. 'A writer of genius' John Betjeman, Author also wrote The Small Back Room and A Sort of Traitor .
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One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius (John Betjeman)
The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess (Clive James NEW REVIEW)
[An] inexplicably neglected author (THE TIMES)
Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart (Ruth Rendell SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long (Julian Fellowes)
I'd place him up there with Graham Greene (Philippa Gregory)
Darkness Falls from the Air [has] the most perfect ending of any story I've ever read (Patrick McGrath)
A remarkable storyteller (DAILY MAIL)
A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill (NEW STATESMAN)
He tells a story gloriously (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
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The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess (Clive James NEW REVIEW)
[An] inexplicably neglected author (THE TIMES)
Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart (Ruth Rendell SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long (Julian Fellowes)
I'd place him up there with Graham Greene (Philippa Gregory)
Darkness Falls from the Air [has] the most perfect ending of any story I've ever read (Patrick McGrath)
A remarkable storyteller (DAILY MAIL)
A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill (NEW STATESMAN)
He tells a story gloriously (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
The classic novel of the London Blitz captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 074740822X
- ISBN 13 9780747408222
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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