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From the best-selling writer of Longbourn, a stunning new book that practices an unnamed article writer - Samuel Beckett - whose life and astonishing literary gift idea are permanently formed in the forge of warfare. When warfare breaks out in Europe in 1939, a unknown article writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is also drawn in to the maelstrom. With him we go through the hardships yet obstinate vibrancy at the heart of Europe through the Nazis' surge to ability, his friendships with Wayne Joyce and other luminaries, his silently keen devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong friend, his secret benefit the French Resistance and narrow escapes from the Gestapo, his trip from occupied Paris to the countryside, and the rubble of his life after liberation. And through it all we are witness to workings of the uniquely brilliant head struggling to create a terminology that will communicate his experience of this shattered world. Here is a remarkable history of success and determination and a family portrait of the extremes of individuals experience alchemized into timeless art.
