Trouble signing in? | The E-mail Address(es) field is required. Copyright © 2001-2020 OCLC. All this is expertly paced, unfurling before the book is half finished; a reader can guess what is coming. Etchevery, called ``Cornflower'' because of his youth, was one of five soldiers condemned … Alice spends long days in terrible weather on horseback, but she finally feels happy in her new life in Kentucky, even as her marriage to Bennett is failing. Compare book prices from over 100,000 booksellers. LITERARY FICTION by FAMILY LIFE & FRIENDSHIP, by "A Very Long Engagement" opens by introducing us to five French soldiers convicted of wounding themselves; one is innocent, but all are condemned, and it is a form of cruelty, perhaps, that instead of being lined up and shot they are sent out into No Man's Land and certain death. As tricky as Japrisot's earlier bestsellers in his native France (The Passion of Women, 1990, etc. All Rights Reserved. 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The gossips are agog: “In Mallard, nobody married dark....Marrying a dark man and dragging his blueblack child all over town was one step too far.” Desiree's decision seals Jude’s misery in this “colorstruck” place and propels a new generation of flight: Jude escapes on a track scholarship to UCLA. HISTORICAL FICTION ‧ GENERAL FICTION, by 0 with reviews - Be the first. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. GENERAL FICTION http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/60739655> ; http:\/\/purl.oclc.org\/dataset\/WorldCat> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/60739655#CreativeWork\/unidentifiedOriginalWork>, http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/60739655#PublicationEvent\/london_vintage_2003>. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish. | Originally published: London : Harvill, 1993. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. A Very Long Engagement is a 1991 romantic war novel by French author and screenwriter Sébastien Japrisot. Jojo Moyes ‧ Separate up to five addresses with commas (,). Cinematic in sweep and emotional impact, the novel is both an absorbing mystery and a playful study of the different ways one story can be told. A Very Long Engagement Characters Sebastien Japrisot This Study Guide consists of approximately 35 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Very Long Engagement. Dissatisfied with the official account of her fiancÇ Jean Etchevery's death in WW I, wheelchair-bound painter Mathilde Donnay resolves to find out the truth—with unexpectedly moving results at the end of a twisted trail. A love letter to the power of books and friendship. Categories: Shipping prices may be approximate. Cinematic in sweep and emotional impact, the novel is both an absorbing mystery and a playful study of the different ways one story can be told. Brit Bennett Wrestles With Identity in New Novel, Brit Bennett on the ‘Wildest Week’ of Her Life, Author Makes Claims Against Jojo Moyes Book. by Much to the dismay of her husband and father-in-law, Alice signs up and soon learns the ropes from the library’s leader, Margery. Please enter the message. Magazine Subscribers (How to Find Your Reader Number). Click on the price to find out more about a book. influencers in the know since 1933. by Retrieve credentials. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es). The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es). The name field is required. | http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/60739655>. During the First World War five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no man's land and certain death. Neither predictable nor surprising, the denouement, when it finally happens, is shocking, moving and horribly convincing * Literary Review * The narrative is brilliantly complex and beguiling, and the climax devastating * Independent *, A runaway bestseller in France, this stunning novel about love and war has been compared to War and Peace by the Los Angeles Times. A runaway bestseller in France, this stunning novel about love and war has been compared to War and Peace by the Los Angeles Times. The subject field is required. In the second half, Jude spars with her cousin Kennedy, Stella's daughter, a spoiled actress. Neither predictable nor surprising, the denouement, when it finally happens, is shocking, moving and horribly convincing * Literary Review * The narrative is brilliantly complex and beguiling, and the climax devastating * Independent * They may have different backgrounds, but their commitment to helping the people of Baileyville brings them together. Sebastien Japrisot Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway. As her researches gather more urgency, however, the years pass, survivors of the war die, memories fade, and documents disappear—leaving a trail utterly cold except for the puzzlingly contradictory stories related by the soldiers' families. She’s just about to resign herself to a life of boredom when an opportunity presents itself in the form of a traveling horseback library—an initiative from Eleanor Roosevelt meant to counteract the devastating effects of the Depression by focusing on literacy and learning. She writes about Kentucky with lush descriptions of the landscape and tender respect for the townspeople, most of whom are poor, uneducated, and grateful for the chance to learn.