The Charioteer
by Mary Renault
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Author: Mary RenaultEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-05-13
ISBN: 0375714189
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: A timeless classic of heartbreaking subtelty
Summary: 5 Stars
This is, bar none, my favorite book. It must be; I've read it at least a dozen times over the years, and I walk away from it with something new each and every time.
Renault is a mistress of sublime subtlety, and she says as much through artistic uses of pauses and silence and the absence of words as she does with every finely-honed phrase. Each of her characters is beautifully human: Laurie, the frustrated invalid coming to terms with his identity and his emotions; Ralph, a man living a painfully British life "of quiet desperation;" Andrew, the innocent; the cagey yet well-meaning Alec; the immature and demanding Sandy; cruel and calculating Bunny... all of these characters and more are thrown together by fate and circumstance after the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940-- Britain's finest hour-- as they attempt to make sense of love and war.
The Charioteer is successful on every level-- as a brilliant piece of historical fiction, as poetic literature, as an etude on the themes of the Iliad, and, perhaps most importantly as a timeless story of love among the ruins and the power of hope ... It is truly an underrated masterpiece of 20th century fiction.
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