My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You
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Description
Sur fond de drame historique et de romance impossible, l'auteur dépeint tant la société anglaise au temps de la première guerre mondiale que les motivations qui poussaient tant de jeunes hommes de se lancer au combat. Recommended mostly to readers with a particular interest in WWI, if only for its sharp historical gaze. Je peux citer quelques titres que je recommande: "Regeneration", "The Eye in the Door" et "The Ghost Road" par Pat Barker, "A Long Long Way" par l'auteur irlandais Sebastian Barry, "The Three-Day Road" par le canadien Joseph Boyden. Young takes time to build them up and this is probably why a third of the way in I was thinking 'it's good, but I don't see what all the fuss is about'. Le style souvent saccadé pour reproduire, je suppose, le bruit des armes sur les champs de bataille n'est pas ce que j'apprécie le plus dans un roman -- mes voix iraient plutôt vers un style plus lyrique, plus poétique si on peut parler de poésie à propos de la guerre.
At times, Young's writing is stellar, particularly in her descriptions of war (from all directions - the front, the nurses, those comfortably at home, those less comfortably at home.
The unveiling of the developing surgery was written so eloquently that it never seemed too heavy on medical jargon and I understood it completely. How can the handsome, talented artist Riley Purefoy go back to the life he had before war broke out, especially now he is so badly injured? I have read very little about The Great War, so I cannot make good comparisons in literature about this era.
The writing style is very pleasurable to read, beautifully wordy and almost a touch indulgent - but I like that.When his jaw is blown off, though, he sends her a letter telling her he loves another to spare her the pain of living with him and his disfigurement, and he enlists his own nurse’s help in convincing Nadine to go away.
Moving between Ypres, London and Paris, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is a deeply affecting, moving and brilliant novel of love and war, and how they affect those left behind as well as those who fight.My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You starts out slow-paced but picks up so much speed in the second half that I wasn’t able to put it down.
- Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
- EAN: 764486781913
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