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Peace - Paperback

by Richard Bausch
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard BauschSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:4/7/2009Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307388582ISBN-10:307388581UPC:9780307388582Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:War & Military, Literary, PsychologicalAward:2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner - Fiction AwardSize:7.98 x 5.24 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC90EBN732

This "small masterpiece with the same emotional force and moral complexity as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Tolstoy's Hadji Murad" (Colm Tóibín) inspired the film Recon.

Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain.

As they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307388582ISBN-10:307388581UPC:9780307388582Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:War & Military, Literary, PsychologicalAward:2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner - Fiction AwardSize:7.98 x 5.24 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC90EBN732
This is Richard Bausch's eleventh novel. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and other publications and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including The O. Henry Awards' Best American Short Stories, and New Stories from the South. He is chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writer's Workshop of the University of Memphis.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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🏆 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner - Fiction Award

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