Parade's End: No More Parades : A Novel (Series #2) (Paperback)

from maritimer

When I am unconvinced by a much celebrated novel, my default mode is "try harder", hoping that I will connect if I stick with it. This approach often pays off. There have been exceptions, most notably, (and predictably), Henry James. My struggles reading Portrait of a Lady gave me some small insi...

from jeffome

Well, this is part 2 of the Parade's End quartet by Ford. Part 1 and I did not get along well, but since they were both in the same volume, i trudged forward with part 2. The writing style is still challenging, but like that subtitled foreign film that seems completely unwatchable those first few...

from kukulaj

This is a really small stage, a single town in France in the middle of WW1. Ford lays out more explicitly the foundations of Tietjens's character - don't peach to the headmaster. Well, I spent a couple years as a young student in an English boarding school. He's right about that! There are just a...