Fields of Glory - Softcover

Rouaud, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611457017 ISBN 13: 9781611457018

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Winner of the Prix Goncourt
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

The setting may be the rainy lower Loire Valley of the 1950s, but it is the WW I battlefields of Artois, Meuse, Lorraine, and Yser that form the emotional backdrop to this poignant testament to the vitality of life that death cannot dim. Fields of Glory begins as a collection of utterly charming reminiscences of the eccentricities of family elders told by an unnamed and indeterminately aged narrator.

In pure and graceful prose, Rouaud describes crotchety grandfather Burgaud with his equally difficult car, a cramped and leaky CV2, and maiden great-aunt Marie with her card file of saints--A prefatory catalogue of terrifying symptoms refers the reader to the saint specializing in the corresponding disorder. The work of a lifetime. It is in the midst of this comedy of daily life that the melancholy subtext of three generations slowly emerges: the stories of the two young men who were casualties of the Fields of Glory and the family that remains to remember them.

About this title

About the Author

Jean Rouaud, born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique, in 1952, earned his living as a newsstand vendor before his first success as a writer. His 1990 novel Fields of Glory won the Prix Goncourt, and he is also the author of The World, More or Less. He lives in the South of France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611457017
• ISBN 13: 9781611457018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160