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A Soldier of the Great War Unabridged edition
Mark Helprin
A Soldier of the Great War Unabridged edition
Mark Helprin
[Read by David Colacci]
From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin comes a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war. -- Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man -- a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe -- tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's experiences, realizes that this magnificent tale is not merely a story: it's a recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and above all, a love song for his family.
Media | Audio Book Audiobook (CD) (Audiobook on CD) |
Number of discs | 24 |
Released | October 1, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9781602833128 |
Label | AudioGO |
Pages | 1 |
Dimensions | 135 × 150 × 57 mm · 453 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | David Colacci |
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