The Separation
by Christopher Priest
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0575081155
- ISBN 13
- 9780575081154
- Seller
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About This Item
In 1999, history author Stuart Gratton is intrigued by a minor mystery of the European war which ended on 10 May 1941. The British-German armistice signed that month has had far-reaching consequences, including a resettlement of European Jews in Madagascar.
In 1936, the identical twin brothers Joe and Jack Sawyer win a rowing medal for Britain in the Berlin Olympics: it's presented to them by Rudolf Hess. The brothers are separated not only by a twin's fierce need "to be treated as a separate human being", but by sexual rivalry and even ideology. When war breaks out Jack becomes a gung-ho bomber pilot, Joe a conscientious objector. Still they're inescapably linked, and sometimes confused. Both suffer injuries and hauntingly similar ambulance journeys. Churchill writes a puzzled memo (later unearthed by Gratton) about the anomaly of a registered-pacifist Red Cross worker flying planes for Bomber Command. Hess has significant, eventually incompatible meetings with both men. Contradictions are everywhere.
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- Bookseller
- Shop-books.ca (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202001008
- Title
- The Separation
- Author
- Christopher Priest
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0575081155
- ISBN 13
- 9780575081154
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- used books, discount books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Alternate History; First Editions;
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