![]() ![]() After that, there was no doubling back to recover one’s youth or take up the slack. Then came the forced march of the resumed war. From the university where he did well and made friends, he had strolled forth distinctive. Like others of his generation, had perhaps never quite done so, being born into knowledge of the Great War…. In that spring of 1947, Leith was thirty-two years old. Finality ran through the train, an exhalation. Here’s the opening, two sentences to illustrate the depletion of war: ![]() I would die happy if I could execute a single sentence as compact, poetic, and meaningful as any in this novel. Winner of the 2003 National Book Award, The Great Fire inspires and intimidates. Co-starring are Helen and Benedict Driscoll, seventeen and twenty respectively together, a single force of nature. The leading man in this taut, beautiful novel is Aldred Leith-measured, strong, true-crisscrossing continents out of duty, curiosity, and ultimately love. I had to own Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire. ![]() I heard her on the radio I found her book at the library. ![]()
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