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Ladysmith
by Giles Foden
ISBN: 0375409203
ISBN-13: 9780375409202
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Inspired by the author's great-grandfather's letters home from the Boer War, this novel is about the siege of Ladysmith. The story is told from the points of view not only of the British soldiers but of the townspeople, and provides a vivid picture of life in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century.
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"T]he prologue of the book...suggests that Foden's meticulous research can indeed produce poetry..Sad to say, the poetry soon ends....[T]here is a multicultural thoroughness to Foden's docudrama that is more appropriate, perhaps, to a bar graph than a novel... The real failure of LADYSMITH however, is a leaden seriousness that smashes characters into pancakes and language into parody." -- Jonathan Levi
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The siege itself is most of the book. And it is superbly described-a slow gathering of hunger, fear, and despair rendered in the best Foden detail....[An] intricately engineered novel...." -- Joyce Carol Oates
-- New York Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2000
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 7 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Pages: 287
Publisher's Notes
A harrowing novel of the Boer War visits the South African town of Ladysmith in 1899, which has been surrounded by Boer forces and threatened with destruction.
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New York: Knopf, 2000. First American edition Fine in Wraps The second novel by this young British writer (his first was a winner of the Whitbread Award and Somerset Maugham Prize), a love story set against the Boer siege of the South African town of Ladysmith. Inspired by letters from his great-grandfather who was a British trooper there. This is an uncorrected proof copy in plain gray wrappers with a sheet of quotes form the British press laid in. ( more information)
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