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A country road, a tree / Jo Baker.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2016Description: 304 pages 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780345816382 (bound)
- 0345816382 (bound)
- 823/.92 23
- Issued also in electronic format.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC Baker (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 12677 |
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Issued also in electronic format.
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Patron comment on 01/09/2018
A very fine and literary biographical novel on author Samuel Beckett’s tumultuous life during WW II in occupied France, an experience that is believed to have forged him into the great writer he was yet to be and to form an unbreakable bond with whom was to become his lifelong partner, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil. Hunger, exhaustion, constant-fear and the indignities to mind and body of being broke and living rough ring very true in Baker’s writing. The title, “A Country Road, a Tree”, is taken from the initial stage direction of what is perhaps Beckett’s most famous play, 'Waiting for Godot', and there are some playful shadows of the work in the Baker’s prose – bad shoes and sore feet being one. Beckett was a remarkable man who risked his life to assist the French Resistance and had to take flight with Suzanne from the Gestapo. Through this he remained dedicated to being a meaningful writer, whatever the cost, and was later to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Jo Baker is a prizewinning author with a writing ability of the highest standard and worthy of Beckett.