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Feigel, Lara.
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Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958.
Green, Henry, 1905-1974.
Spiel, Hilde.
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- England -- London.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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The love-charm of bo...
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The love-charm of bombs [electronic resource] : restless lives in the Second World War / Lara Feigel.
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Feigel, Lara.
London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Subjects
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958.
Green, Henry, 1905-1974.
Spiel, Hilde.
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- England -- London.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=F0E19444-10F3-44C9-8A6F-6305E4C3C502
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9781608199853 (electronic bk.)
1608199851 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (519 p.) : ill., map.
Contents:
Part I. One Night in the Lives of Five Writers : September 26, 1940 -- Newsreel -- 7 p.m. : Blackout -- 10 p.m. : Fire -- 1 a.m. : Rescue -- 6 a.m. : All Clear -- Part II. The Blitz : September 1940-May 1941 -- "War, she thought, was sex" -- "Ireland can be dementing" -- "How we shall survive this I don't know" -- "So much else is on the way to be lost" -- Part III. The Lull : June 1941-February 1944 -- " You are the ultimate of something" -- "Can pain and danger exist?" -- "Only at night I cry" -- "Alas, what hate everywhere" -- Part IV. Approaching Victory : June 1944-August 1945 -- "Droning things, mindlessly making for you" -- "A collective intoxication of happiness" -- "The days were listless and a flop" -- Part V. Surveying the Ruins : Postwar Europe, 1945-9 -- "The magic Irish light and the soft air" -- "Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland" -- "O, maybe we'll live a while in Killala" -- "The returning memory of a dream long forgotten" -- "The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna" -- Part VI. Mid-century : Middle Age -- " We could have been happy for a lifetime" -- "Let us neither of us forget ... what reality feels like and eternity is" -- "The world my wilderness, its caves my home."
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As poetic as it is enlightening this detailed biography of five literary figures is achingly beautiful in its depiction of the disturbing everyday realities of war.
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