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Title	:	A Soldier of the Great War
Author	:	Mark Helprin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 860 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2005 by Mariner Books (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Cultural. Italy. World War I

A Soldier of the Great War Paperback | Pages: 860 pages

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From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.

Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man—a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe—tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's experiences, realizes that this magnificent tale is not merely a story: it's a recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and above all, a love song for his family.

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Original Title:	A Soldier of the Great War
ISBN:	0156031132 (ISBN13: 9780156031134)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Washington State Book Award (1992)

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It's taking me a long time to read this. Not because it's bad. Just the opposite. The writing is so exquisite that my heart is breaking over and over again and I realize I'm not making the time to read. Yet I'm drawn back every day, and then wonder why I'm avoiding it. Against the backdrop of the brutality and idiocy of war, the beauty of life and the spirit are awesome, awesome as in the mysterious majesty that raises us to ecstasy.100 more pages and I don't want it to end.Breathtaking. My god

A Soldier of the Great War, Mark HelprinA Soldier of the Great War is a novel by American writer Mark Helprin about the Great War. It was published in May 1991 by Harcourt. As a young man, Alessandro Giuliani foresees Italy's entry into the Great War, and joins the navy rather than waiting to be drafted into the more dangerous infantry. This reasoned and logical course of action has no place in a world gone mad, and Alessandro's life, loves, friendships, and fortunes all take bizarre and often

This is a difficult to categorize book, as it swings from serious to farcical and much of it strains credulity, but oh, what a tale! It is fascinating to read about life in Europe around the turn of the century and into the Great War, or what we now called World War I. The world was turned upside down by that war, and it is apparent in the book. The dynasties die, the nobility fade away, and what is left is the modern world. Helprin has a deep awareness to the way the setting of the book allows

Brilliant!! A comedy of errors and a beautiful picture of life and why you should never give up!!

The book has thought provoking dialogue on the life of a fascinating character as he reflects on his life and his philosophy.

I'd probably argue that Mark Helprin's greatest asset can also be his greatest flaw. This is his mental exuberance. This book doesn't need to be 790 pages long. It's often his philosophical digressions, somewhat repetitive in nature, that I'd have been much more ruthless in weeding out. It's perhaps a novel that thinks it's wiser than it is. That said he's a brilliant storyteller and when he's focussed on the plot this was a riveting read. A Soldier of the Great War is the story of Alessandro

So...this would probably be the greatest novel ever written. It is a war story and a love story, a story about God and beauty, a story about perseverance, and it's really funny and quirky at times. Mark Helprin is our most intelligent writer, and our most underappreciated. I don't read many books more than once, but I've read this one 3 times and some of the passages countless times.