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Description for A Son of War
Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Joe Richardson is getting to know his father, who recently returned from the war and is trying to rebuild his own identity as well as shape that of his son. Joe is the most important thing to his parents but can they put him on the path to happiness when they're not sure how to be happy themselves?
Joe Richardson is getting to know his father, who recently returned from the war and is trying to rebuild his own identity as well as shape that of his son. Joe is the most important thing to his parents but can they put him on the path to happiness when they're not sure how to be happy themselves?
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Sceptre
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340734155
SKU
KOG0000953
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg's first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965 and since then his novels have included The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Credo, The Maid of Buttermere and The Soldier's Return, which was published to huge critical acclaim ... Read more
Reviews for A Son of War
Alive with autobiographical energies and characters of flesh-and-blood immediacy ... deeply humane and acutely truthful - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times This is a splendid book - even better than the first of what I hope will be a trilogy ... Bragg's characters are real, their relationships and problems acutely and sympathetically observed. Never mawkish, he knows the people he ... Read more