Timothy Findley
Paperback | Pages: 218 pages Rating: 3.88 | 7507 Users | 372 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Wars |
| ISBN: | 0571207995 (ISBN13: 9780571207992) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Governor General's |
| Literary Awards: | / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général |
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Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare; of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death. The Wars is quite simply one of the best novels ever written about the First World War.Itemize Based On Books The Wars
| Title | : | The Wars |
| Author | : | Timothy Findley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 218 pages |
| Published | : | August 20th 2001 by Faber and Faber (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Classics. War. Literature. Canadian Literature |
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Wars by Timothy Findley follows the story of fictional character Robert Ross and his journey as a soldier during the First World War. I thought Robert was a very captivating character because of the experiences he had gone through before the war. One of the main reason why he decided to enlist in the war was to escape the grief he was feeling for the death of his older sister. In the war, he survived through the death of many of fellow soldiers as well as the guilt of killing other individuals.There are two really great things going on in Timothy Findley's The Wars. Firstly, is the narrative technique. The book is written from the perspective of a historian trying to make sense of a moment of madness in the middle of the First World War. Findley accomplishes this goal through mixed medium narrating, using journal entries, interviews, photographs and the historian's conjecture. This keeps the story mysterious and engages the reader in a sort of detective, choose-your-own-adventure kind
The Wars by Timothy Findley is one of my favorite novels.Written in 1977, the title of the novel refers both to WW1 and the psychological effects of warfare on the psyche of our protagonist Robert Ross. The war within the war so to speak.Robert is from Lethbridge Alberta and the novel follows him as a 17 year old on the prairie, then through the war in France and continuing with his leave and convalescence in England. Back home Robert is raised by a cold mother and a more caring father. After a
In 2011, Canadian parents challenged the inclusion of Timothy Findley's award-winning novel The Wars on a high school reading list, describing it as depraved and full of sex. I mentioned the challenge in one of my periodic banned book blog entries and promised myself I'd read it. It took me a year to run down a copy -- it's a Canadian novel from the 1970s and you never see it on book store shelves, at least here in the States -- but with the help of a bookseller friend I tracked it down.And I'm
Beauty and pain. Pathos and prosaic passion. Heartrending, compassionate, truth. No one says it like Tiff did. "It's the ordinary men and women who've made us what we are. Monstrous, complacent and mad" (Pg15). "Staring down expressionless, he watched as his reflection was beaten into submission by the rain" (Pg18)."All of these actors were obeying some kind of fate we call 'revenge'. Because a girl had died -- and her rabbits had survived her" (Pg23).Findlay structures characters, narrative and
World War 1. The trench warfare. Principal protagonists both male, young and handsome. This, and Sebastian Faulk's "Birdsong" (another 1001 book which I would have reviewed, and given five stars, had I not read it long before I joined goodreads).When you get so much, or even just a second helping, of the same thing your pleasure tends to be less and less. You'll go, hey, I've seen this before: family, war, a little sex and romance, the present's memory suddenly hurtling towards the past, the
The book is a very clever mix of a researcher trying to piece together the actions and short life of 19-year-old Robert Ross during The Great War, and the immense atrocities of the war as seen through the eyes of Robert Ross himself.Interesting is the plural form of the title: To me it implied both the First World War and the war Robert is fighting within himself...I had rated the book 4 to 4½ stars originally but the more I thought about the book and its story while writing my Dutch review for
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