Gossip From The Forest - Softcover

Keneally, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156364697 ISBN 13: 9780156364690

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1985

Synopsis

A tale of personal prejudice and political obstinacy from the author of Schindler's List. In 1918 at Compiègne, France, a group of intractable men negotiate to forge the armistice ending World War I. The Allies press for total submission; the Germans angle for compromise. So they talk on and on, while the guns roar and men die.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Keneally is renowned as the author of Schindler's List, which was awarded the Booker Prize and made into an Academy Award-winning film by Steven Spielberg. He is author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction and is one of Australia's leading literary figures. He lives in Sydney.

Review:

I was intrigued, excited and sure that the vivid snapshots of private-versus-public emotion would coalesce into a moving, meaningful image * The Sunday Times * As fiction it is absorbing and as history it achieves the kind of significance earned only by sympathy acting on deep knowledge...Keneally's book belongs...with those like Solzhenitsyn's AUGUST 1914, books that delineate the past in sympathetic depth and so urge the reader to enter it * New York Times Book Review * Extremely gripping, as well as important historical fiction * New Statesman *

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0156364697
• ISBN 13: 9780156364690
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228