From Library Journal Lively recently won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize
for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. The heroine is Claudia
Hampton, an unconventional historian and former war correspondent who lies in
a hospital bed dying of cancer. Forced inward, Claudia moves randomly across
time and place to reconstruct the strata of her life. But "most lives have
their core, their kernel, the vital centre"; Claudia's is the brief, tragic
encounter she had in Egypt during the war with Tom Southern, a British tank
officer on leave from battle. Tom's voice, along with those of her brother and
daughter, joins Claudia's to shape a narrative that is a complex, intricately
composed fugue. This haunting evocation of loss is Lively's finest achievement
yet.Laurence Hull, Cannon Memorial Lib., Concord, N.C.Copyright 1988 Reed
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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Grove Pr; 1 edition (April 1, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802110274
ISBN-13: 75
Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
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