Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9780099496922
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £9.99
Birdsong is a novel about the tenderness and the limits of human flesh, it is about men and women living at the edge. Set mostly in France spanning the years before and during the First World War it captures the drama and destruction of that era as it tells the story of Stephen, a young Englishman who is impelled through a series of extreme experiences, from a traumatic clandestine love affair which rips apart the bourgeois French family he lives with, through grim insanity of the Great War. In the vast scenes of suffering and the tender depiction of human love, Birdsong is at times almost unbearably moving to read.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9780099496922
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £9.99
Magnificent - deeply moving
With Birdsong Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war... This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again
Amazing... I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit
An overpowering and beautiful novel... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one
Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable