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More copies of this ISBN:Birdsongby Sebastian Faulks
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms [Ernest Hemmingway] and as sensuous as The English Patient [Michael Ondaatje]. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come. Review:"Superb storytelling and craftsmanship....[A] tribute to the durability of the human soul." People Review:"Birdsong moved me more profoundly than anything I've read in years....A deeply compassionate, utterly thrilling work by a master of the form." Frank Conroy Review:"The accounts of combat are among the finest I have ever read...so powerful as to be almost unbearable...a tribute to the author's remarkable skill and tact and dazzling virtuosity." Los Angeles Times Review:"Magnificent — gorgeously written, deeply moving, rich in detail." The Times (London) Review:"An amazing book — among the most stirringly erotic I have read for years....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." Quentin Crewe, The Daily Mail (London) Review:"Birdsong seems to me superb. His prose is spare and precise." Michael Gorra, The New York Times Book Review Review:"This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it." Nigel Watts, Time Out Review:"One of the finest novels of the last 40 years." Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday Review:"Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a prefect novel — just a great one." Simon Schama, New Yorker About the AuthorSebastian Faulks was a journalist for fourteen years before taking up writing books full time in 1991. Faulks lives with his family in London. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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