A Country Road, A Tree : A Novel

from KateBaxter

What an interesting account of a tormented writer's life during WWII - driven to write yet haunted by his mother's admonition to be useful. Author Jo Baker appears to have done her research and delved deeply into the formative years of young Samuel Beckett in France during WWII. The book's writin...

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A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker is a novel based on the WWII experiences of Samuel Beckett. Though Irish, Beckett spent the war years in France. In 1939, our protagonist, who is not named, is a failed writer living in Paris with his lover, Suzanne. Eventually he becomes a member of the Resista...

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I thoroughly enjoyed this fictional book about Samuel Beckett. I wondered if the fictional Suzanne was anything like his wife Suzanne as they didn't seem fit for each other. I loved the prose of this story, the working in of James Joyce as Beckett's mentor and the struggle to write during the war...

from PennyMck

Valuable read if you want to understand Waiting for Godot - or the man who could write Waiting for Godot. Also a valuable insight to life in Occupied France during WWII.

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Could've been very literary but actually a very good novel and insight into Beckett.