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A Soldier of the Great War (1991) is a novel by Mark Helprin concerning an aged WWI veteran who recounts his life and adventures while traveling with a young man he meets after the two of them are thrown off a bus, the former leaving after the latter is refused entry, as the older man marches toward a visit with his daughter, neither knowing the outcome of their journey.
[edit] Literary significance and reception
- "Energetic prose, poetic images of great intensity and an antic imagination combine in this gripping moral fable narrated by a septuagenarian irrevocably altered by WW I. This BOMC main selection was on PW's hardcover bestseller list for eight weeks." [1]
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