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This wonderful book: Separation by Christopher Priest, is a brilliantly conceived novel constant challenges the way we see history, reminding us that even the greatest world conflict is the result of individual choices and subject to damaged recollections. It is a marvelous portrait of war and it uncertainties, for those who pursue it and those who suffer by it.
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Christopher Priest is the author of ten novels and two collections of short stories, including the prize-winning THE GLAMOUR AND THE PRESTIGE which won the James Tait Black award in 1995. His most recent novel is THE EXTREMES. He lives in Hastings with his wife and twin children.
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Starred Review. In this subtle, unsettling alternative WWII history from British author Priest (The Prestige), Jack Sawyer is an RAF bomber pilot who encourages his government to distrust the peace proposal offered by renegade Nazi Rudolph Hess. At the same time, perhaps, Jack's identical twin brother, Joe, is a pacifist Red Cross staffer aiding peace negotiations with a German delegation headed by Hess. Jack's actions help shape the events we remember; Joe's lead to a truce between Germany and Britain in 1941 that results in a disturbingly familiar postwar world. Convincingly detailed diaries, scraps of published texts, declassified transcripts and more baffle a historian who tries to reconcile different realities. The brothers themselves recognize the uncertainty of motives and actions; Joe in particular struggles to believe that he's making a better future even though he realizes how much it costs him personally. Many alternative history novels are bloodless extrapolations from mountains of data, but this one quietly builds characters you care about—then leaves their dilemmas unresolved as they try to believe that what they have done is "right." (Dec.)
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster (Trade Division)
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0743220331
- ISBN 13 9780743220330
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Scribners 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Front top cover corner lightly curled and lower rear corner and top page edges faintly foxed - Very Good book Signed by the Author on the Title Page ''. Jack and Joe Sawyer rowed for Great Britain in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jack joins the RAF. His war is savage, spreading firestorms across Germany. Joe. declares himself a pacifist. As their stories play out, possibilities, parallels and confusion surround them. each. an ordinary man party to momentous events.'' First Printings are very scarce. Book. Seller Inventory # 121637
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