TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,Jo
TI  - A country road, a tree
SN  - 9781101971161
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Beckett, Samuel,
KW  - Authors, Irish
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - Historical fiction, Irish
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographical fiction
N2  - From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war.  When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the hardships yet stubborn vibrancy at the heart of Europe during the Nazis' rise to power; his friendships with James Joyce and other luminaries; his quietly passionate devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; his secret work for the French Resistance and narrow escapes from the Gestapo; his flight from occupied Paris to the countryside; and the rubble of his life after liberation. And through it all we are witness to workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express his experience of this shattered world. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination, and a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into timeless art
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