Birdsong
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FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 5/31/01, 3:12 PM
Bradley A. Scott
On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:31:58 -0400 "Tom Dillie"
<[removed]@wadsworth.lib.oh.us> writes:
> Carol,
> This could be Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Here's the plot
> summary from Amazon:
>
> Readers who are entranced by the sweeping Anglo sagas of Masterpiece
> Theatre will devour
> Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks's historical drama. A bestseller in
> England, there's even a little
> high-toned erotica thrown into the mix to convince the doubtful. The
> book's hero, a
> 20-year-old Englishman named Stephen Wraysford, finds his true love
> on a trip to Amiens in
> 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married, the wife of a wealthy
> textile baron. Wrayford
> convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his
> side, but things do not turn
> out according to plan. Wraysford is haunted by this doomed affair
> and carries it with him into
> the trenches of World War I. Birdsong derives most of its power
> from its descriptions of mud
> and blood, and Wraysford's attempt to retain a scrap of humanity
> while surrounded by it. There
> is a simultaneous description of his present-day granddaughter's
> quest to read his diaries,
> which is designed to give some sense of perspective; this device is
> only somewhat successful.
> Nevertheless, Birdsong is an unflinching war story that is bookended
> by romances and a
> rewarding read.
>
> However, this book was published in hardcover in 1996 and
> paperback in 1997, a little
> earlier than what your patron thought.
>
> Tom Dillie Adult Services Librarian
> Wadsworth Public Library
> 132 Broad St.
> Wadsworth OH 44281
>
> Carol Kubala wrote:
>
> > I have a patron seeking the title of a book with bird in the
> title, written within the
> > last 1 1/2, and having something to do with World War I. She says
> it was a beautiful
> > story, lyrically written and one of the best books she read in
> recent times. The only book
> > I could come up with is Painted Bird by Jerry Kosinski. She says
> she does not think this
> > was it. Any other titles come to mind? Thank you in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Carol Kubala
> > Adult Services Librarian
> > Saxton B. Little Free Library/Columbia, CT
> > 860 228-0350 - voice
> > 860 228-1569 - fax
> >
> >
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