The Return of the Soldier - West, Rebecca
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Rebecca West's debut novel explores the trauma of war and the impact of a soldier's amnesia on the women he returns to--his devoted cousin, his poised and proper wife, and the sweetheart he loved and lost in his youth.

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Rebecca West's debut novel explores the trauma of war and the impact of a soldier's amnesia on the women he returns to--his devoted cousin, his poised and proper wife, and the sweetheart he loved and lost in his youth.
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Autorenporträt
Rebecca West was a British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. West, a novelist who worked in a variety of genres, reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph, and The New Republic, as well as serving as a Bookman correspondent. Rebecca West was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield in London, England, in 1892, and grew up in an environment rich in intellectual stimulation, political debate, vibrant conversation, books, and music. Her Scottish mother, Isabella, was a talented pianist who did not pursue a musical career after marrying Charles Fairfield. He never returned to them, dying poor and alone in a boarding house in Liverpool in 1906, when Cicily was 14. The rest of the family went to Edinburgh, Scotland, where Cicily attended George Watson's Ladies College. She had to leave school in 1907 because of illness.She elected not to return after recuperating from the sickness, later describing her time at Watson's as "prison".
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When Chris Baldry returns from the trenches so badly traumatized that the last fifteen years of his life have been expunged from his memory, the three women who love him most are forced into a radical re-examination of their own past lives. Courageous and compassionate, The Return of the Soldier delineates the long-term consequences of war in ways that are as relevant today as they were in 1918 when the book first appeared. Ultimately - and without ever lapsing into easy sentiment - Rebecca West paints a portrait of the redeeming power of love Pat Barker