I remember 'Generals Die in Bed' as a great book. I need to reread it, having just read Robert Graves' memoirs, and get a bit more of that miserable trench action. Maybe reread Findley's 'The Wars' too, just to extinguish any last spark of will to live.
It is a great book, as is Findley's The Wars. The Great War fairly runs through our literature; not even L.M. Montgomery is untouched. If you are looking for more, I suggest Joseph Boyden's acclaimed debut novel Three Day Road (2005), inspired by Ojibwa sniper Francis Pegahmagabow. It may just keep that spark alive.
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
I remember 'Generals Die in Bed' as a great book. I need to reread it, having just read Robert Graves' memoirs, and get a bit more of that miserable trench action. Maybe reread Findley's 'The Wars' too, just to extinguish any last spark of will to live.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great book, as is Findley's The Wars. The Great War fairly runs through our literature; not even L.M. Montgomery is untouched. If you are looking for more, I suggest Joseph Boyden's acclaimed debut novel Three Day Road (2005), inspired by Ojibwa sniper Francis Pegahmagabow. It may just keep that spark alive.
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