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Book Description
Robert Prentice is eighteen.His mother Alice Prentice is fifty-three.Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war; Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity.In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer Richard Yates crafts a novel of post-war America, at once at odds with its own sense of iContinue
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spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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A member of the awkward squad
On an autumn Saturday in 1944 Private Robert Prentice, an 18-year-old rifleman trainee, makes a long journey from his camp in Virginia to New York City, to see his mother. He is soon to be sent abroad, France most likely, and there he’ll see action, ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010
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Three novels in one. The normal story of a single mother and his young soldier child in the Second World War. The two characters are pure Yates, but the story, especially in the war bits, does not go on so well as in American-province, revolutionary-roadish Yates style.
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- English Books
- Paperback 352 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0312420404
- ISBN-13: 9780312420406
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: May 03, 2002
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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A member of the awkward squad
On an autumn Saturday in 1944 Private Robert Prentice, an 18-year-old rifleman trainee, makes a long journey from his camp in Virginia to New York City, to see his mother. He is soon to be sent abroad, France most likely, and there he’ll see action, ... (read full critics)