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Susan Hill
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Pages: 192 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0140036954
Pub: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: 1973-10-25
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3855
Reader Reviews:
w-o-w (5/5 people found this helpful)
I read this in year 11 (please dont be put off in any way by my age) at school and was completely blown away by it. Seriously-you HAVE to read this. The relationship is so emotional that you will find it difficult to put the book down. I wouldn't say this about any random book. The ending is so sad i cried for an hour.
DONT let this put you off-you HAVE TO READ IT!
My favorite WW1 book (so far...!)
love in the trenches (14/14 people found this helpful)
A beautiful and intense novel. John Hilliard is distant and repressed, swallowing words and following orders. Always the glacial outsider he meets David Barton who's open, friendly and warm, full of stories and family and smiles. Their relationship is so natural, not contrived, just a gradual understanding, a slow clarification. Of course there's the senseless horrors (shockingly pointless), the rats and corpses and mud and tradegy. But this is essentially a love story. An eloquent expression of the gay experience, but much more than that too. Spare, poetic and wonderfully lucid, the tears will come. Utterly transcendent.
Wonderful wonderful book (11/12 people found this helpful)
Strange Meeting is the story of two men meeting whilst serving together in WW1. It is a gently-paced, completely absorbing tale, with characters that draw you in as it progresses. It is one of the most beautiful and haunting books I have ever read - I first came across it at school, and have never forgotten it. Together with the Ghost Road trilogy by Pat Barker, this book is a remarkable fictional representation (both written by women) of the horrors of the trenches, but also the simple joys of friendship that can be discovered at the same time.
Strange Meeting (24/31 people found this helpful)
Absolutly fantastic book. I would strongly reccomend this book for A levelstudents as it gives a female perspective on war despite the patrioticvalues seen during WW1.
The book is quite graphic and very hearwarming-a really excellent novel
True friendships are rare (12/16 people found this helpful)
Only if one was lucky enough to encounter or experience such a friendship, which, if at all, happens once in a lifetime, one can truly appreciate this book. The story could be in any setting and age, but the circumstances that this fictional friendship developed in make it all the more special.
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