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A Soldier of the Great War Lib/E
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A Soldier of the Great War Lib/E Compact disc - 2007

by Mark Helprin; Read by David Colacci


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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.

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  • Title A Soldier of the Great War Lib/E
  • Author Mark Helprin; Read by David Colacci
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Volumes 24
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Blackstone Publishing
  • Date 2007
  • Features Unabridged
  • ISBN 9780792750314 / 0792750314
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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A Soldier of the Great War
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A Soldier of the Great War

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Sound Library, 2007. Book. Very Good. Audio Book (CD). Ex-library copy in a library clamshell case. 24 audio CDs Complete and Unabridged. fiction.
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