Jacob's Room: Annotated Edition

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Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9781847498366Format: Trade paperback (UK)Year: 2020Publisher: BloomsburyDescription:From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his c ollege days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders s story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother s correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and remembrances of those who love him.An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacob s Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments and a paean to the slaughter and loss of the First World War. Show more