The Verdun Affair
A Novel
$30.78
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2018
Summary
A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart.
In 1920, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged. Tom is an orphan from Chicago, a former ambulance driver now gathering bones from the battlefie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472153852 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472153855 |
| Author: | Nick Dybek |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 412g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 158mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
A haunting, beautiful, and wholly absorbing book, that is at once a gripping story of war, a poignant coming of age, and a bittersweet romance. Dybek conjures the time period with elegance and visceral detail. I didn’t want it to end! - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe
The Verdun Affair is an intensely gripping story set in the immediate aftermath of war. From a still-smoldering battlefield, Nick Dybek conjures a sweeping saga of secrets, lies, mistaken identity, love and betrayal. This is the kind of book you can’t put down.I am still haunted by the images of war so deftly conjured in the midst of an elegiac love story. Dybek writes with a commanding sense of story and language. This novel will not let you go.The Verdun Affair is a masterful, sweeping novel of love and war and the way we reconstruct ourselves and our stories after everything has come apart. Nick Dybek is a vivid storyteller, and this is a beautiful and exciting book.The Verdun Affair is ravishingly beautiful, and as much about love as about war. I found myself drawn in immediately, believing the place, the characters, everything in Nick Dybek’s magnificently woven story, which is as finely painted and meted out as Anthony Doerr’s, All the Light we Cannot See, and yet fully its own book. Dybek is a storyteller of great power. If there’s any justice, this novel will be widely read and recognized. I absolutely adored it. - Paula McLain, bestselling author of THE PARIS WIFE and CIRCLING THE SUNAbout The Author
Nick Dybek
Nick Dybek’s first novel, WHEN CAPTAIN FLINT WAS STILL A GOOD MAN, was the winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award, a finalist for the VCU-Cabell First Novelist Award and has been translated into five languages. He’s also a recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award and a Maytag Fellowship. He received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Oregon State University.
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