Gossip From the Forest - Softcover

Keneally, Thomas

3.57

223 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340431040 ISBN 13: 9780340431047

Publisher: Sceptre, 1988

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In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides are torn by battle exhaustion and a confusion that far exceed their national differences. In this riveting combination of history, speculation and rumour, Thomas Keneally recreates the personalities, ideals, prejudices, arguments and desperate measures that resulted in the armistice which would shape the future of Europe.

Price: �5.99

Edition: Second

Format:198 x 129 mm

Imprint: Sceptre

Markets:BCN ex Can

Four of Thomas Keneally's novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize and SCHINDLER'S ARK (filmed by Steven Spielberg as Schindler's List) has sold more copies than any other Booker Prize-winner. He is also the author of several works of non-fiction, including THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN, about the American Southwest.

BIRTHPLACE: New South Wales, Australia.

WHEREABOUTS: Sydney, Australia

PREVIOUS BOOKS: INCLUDE

BLOOD RED, SISTER ROSE; CONFEDERATES; THE PLAYMAKER; THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN; A FAMILY MADNESS; TOWARDS ASMARA; WOMAN OF THE INNER SEA; JACKO; SCHINDLER'S LIST

THE PROMOTION

*Part of the new Sceptre relaunch

SELLING POINTS

(1)Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

(2) Publication will coincide with Keneally's new novel A RIVER TOWN and the paperback of JACKO.

(3) Author PR on publication. Keneally will be here to take part in the Sceptre promotion.

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Review:

Extremely gripping, as well as important historical fiction (New Statesman)

As fiction it is absorbing and as history it achieves the kind of significance earned only by sympathy acting on deep knowledge...Keneally's book belongs...with those like Solzhenitsyn's AUGUST 1914, books that delineate the past in sympathetic depth and so urge the reader to enter it (New York Times Book Review)

I was intrigued, excited and sure that the vivid snapshots of private-versus-public emotion would coalesce into a moving, meaningful image (The Sunday Times)

Book Description:

Thomas Keneally's critically acclaimed fictional recreation of the end of the First World War.

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