Old Soldiers
by
Paul Bailey
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1857025660
ISBN-13
9781857025668
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint
4th Estate
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 6th, 2000
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
104 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.00 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Reissue to follow up publication of Paul Bailey’s new novel Kitty and Virgil. Two of his previous novels ‘Peter Smart’s Confessions’ and ‘Gabriel’s Lament’, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reissue to follow up publication of Paul Bailey’s new novel Kitty and Virgil. Two of his previous novels ‘Peter Smart’s Confessions’ and ‘Gabriel’s Lament’, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.First published in 1980, Old Soldiers is Bailey’s most elegantly simple and perhaps most moving novel. The eponymous soldiers are two old men who (as his own father had been) are still haunted by First World War memories. Victor Harker – a survivor from the Somme, dazed with grief after his wife’s recent death – gets entangled with another man, who splits himself into an ‘unholy trinity’ of parts; by turns a military man, a tramp and a poet, he performs each part enthusiastically, with a loving attention to verisimilitude. It’s only at the end that we glimpse the sixty-year-old shame and grief which he has wasted a life time denying.
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