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Title: How Many Miles to Babylon?
Author: Jennifer Johnston
Narrator: John Keating
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-17-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Whitbread Literary Award-winning novelist Jennifer Johnston's story of two young Irish men, whose defiant friendship spans class and, later, rank at the onset of World War I.
Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, Alexander Moore feels the constraints of his position most acutely in his friendship with Jerry Crowe, a Catholic laborer in town. Jerry is one of the few bright spots in Alec's otherwise troubled life. The boys bond over their love of swimming and horses, despite the admonitions of Alec's cold and overbearing mother, who scolds her son for venturing outside of his class. When the Great War begins, he seizes the opportunity to escape his overbearing mother and taciturn father, and enlists in the British army. Jerry, too, enlists - not out of loyalty to Britain, but to prepare himself for the Republican cause. Stationed in Flanders, the young men are reunited and find that, while encamped in the trenches, their commonalities are what help them survive. Now a lieutenant and an officer, Alec and Jerry again find their friendship under assault, this time from the rigid Major Glendinning, whose unyielding adherence to rank leads the two men toward a harrowing impasse that will change their lives forever.
Members Reviews:
Great Read!
I bought this book for my dad, the Irishman and lover of World War I and II books. He said it was a great book and thought I would enjoy it too especially the first part of the book. Apparently, the part of the story that takes place during the war is hard to read, but so is any book about war depicting battlefields and death. He said he would share with my brothers and will leave for me in the guest bedroom on my next visit. My dad is an avid reader with high standards so if he likes a book, I know it's good.
I love to find a book that captures all of me ...
I love to find a book that captures all of me as I sit in the winter of my home in a comfortable chair and a fire to warm the room. With "How Many Miles to Babylon" I found such a treasure. I grew up in the land of Jerry and Alec at a time when freedom had not yet been born. I'm half way through this story of vivid imagery and magical verse. Jennifer Johnson deserves a Nobel Prize in Literature for every sentence she writes. And I read some more, join me!
Brief But Very Powerful
Oh! What a surprisingly powerful novel! One of our Irish neighbors recommended it to me, saying of all the books he was forced to read for school, this was his very favorite one. And I must say, the book took me by surprise! Though truly more of a novella than novel, at only being a scant few pages over 150, it was beautifully written and so emotional! I just loved it! I do think, however, in order to truly appreciate it, you need to have some understanding of the historical and political context of the book's WWI setting. The style of the book even adds to that historical feel, because despite its 1980s publication, it definitely has the feel of a book written before WWII even. All in all, a surprisingly wonderful story and one that I am very glad that I read!
Five Stars
Great book!
Five Stars
Excellent
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Title: How Many Miles to Babylon?
Author: Jennifer Johnston
Narrator: John Keating
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-17-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Whitbread Literary Award-winning novelist Jennifer Johnston's story of two young Irish men, whose defiant friendship spans class and, later, rank at the onset of World War I.
Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, Alexander Moore feels the constraints of his position most acutely in his friendship with Jerry Crowe, a Catholic laborer in town. Jerry is one of the few bright spots in Alec's otherwise troubled life. The boys bond over their love of swimming and horses, despite the admonitions of Alec's cold and overbearing mother, who scolds her son for venturing outside of his class. When the Great War begins, he seizes the opportunity to escape his overbearing mother and taciturn father, and enlists in the British army. Jerry, too, enlists - not out of loyalty to Britain, but to prepare himself for the Republican cause. Stationed in Flanders, the young men are reunited and find that, while encamped in the trenches, their commonalities are what help them survive. Now a lieutenant and an officer, Alec and Jerry again find their friendship under assault, this time from the rigid Major Glendinning, whose unyielding adherence to rank leads the two men toward a harrowing impasse that will change their lives forever.
Members Reviews:
Great Read!
I bought this book for my dad, the Irishman and lover of World War I and II books. He said it was a great book and thought I would enjoy it too especially the first part of the book. Apparently, the part of the story that takes place during the war is hard to read, but so is any book about war depicting battlefields and death. He said he would share with my brothers and will leave for me in the guest bedroom on my next visit. My dad is an avid reader with high standards so if he likes a book, I know it's good.
I love to find a book that captures all of me ...
I love to find a book that captures all of me as I sit in the winter of my home in a comfortable chair and a fire to warm the room. With "How Many Miles to Babylon" I found such a treasure. I grew up in the land of Jerry and Alec at a time when freedom had not yet been born. I'm half way through this story of vivid imagery and magical verse. Jennifer Johnson deserves a Nobel Prize in Literature for every sentence she writes. And I read some more, join me!
Brief But Very Powerful
Oh! What a surprisingly powerful novel! One of our Irish neighbors recommended it to me, saying of all the books he was forced to read for school, this was his very favorite one. And I must say, the book took me by surprise! Though truly more of a novella than novel, at only being a scant few pages over 150, it was beautifully written and so emotional! I just loved it! I do think, however, in order to truly appreciate it, you need to have some understanding of the historical and political context of the book's WWI setting. The style of the book even adds to that historical feel, because despite its 1980s publication, it definitely has the feel of a book written before WWII even. All in all, a surprisingly wonderful story and one that I am very glad that I read!
Five Stars
Great book!
Five Stars
Excellent