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Losing Juliaby Hull, Jonathan
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Book DescriptionNew York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 2000. 358 pp. . 1st. Hb. VG+/VG+. Book summaryA dying World War I veteran keeps a diary that recalls his battlefield experiences, the death of his best friend in the war, and his subsequent romance with his friend's lover, Julia. Moving between present and past, this romantic debut novel is about youth and age, love and loss.Media Reviews"[The] perfectly pitched nursing-home scenes linger in the memory." -- Kirkus "Jonathan Hull['s]...grasp of history and sense of story combine to evoke with remarkable freshness both the gory excesses of World War I and the exquisite melancholy of love known and lost and idealized ever after." -- Wendy Law-Yone, Washington Post Book World "[T]he more compelling stories in this book are those of the trenches and the nursing home. With a less assured, less mature writer, the war scenes might easily take the novel over, especially rendered as convincingly and movingly as they are here....Patrick's narration of his last days is fearsome and lucid, but he meets his own graceless deterioration with surprising irony and humor." -- Thomas Orton, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Publisher NotesFrom the French battlefields of World War I to a presentday nursing home in California, Patrick Delaney describes his longtime love for Julia, the wife of his best friend, Daniel, as he meets her as a young widow at a memorial service at Verdun, France, through their brief time together, to their ultimate separation and its impact on his life. Other Recommended Books
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