From the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a powerful novel about war, trust, and salvation that begs to be read in a single sitting.
Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. And the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them on that mountain, where they are confronted with the horror of their own time - and then set upon by a sniper.
Taut and propulsive - with its spare language, its punishing landscape, and the keenly drawn portraits of the three young soldiers at its center - Peace is a feat of economy, compression, and imagination, a brutal and unmistakably contemporary meditation on the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.
Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. And the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them on that mountain, where they are confronted with the horror of their own time - and then set upon by a sniper.
Taut and propulsive - with its spare language, its punishing landscape, and the keenly drawn portraits of the three young soldiers at its center - Peace is a feat of economy, compression, and imagination, a brutal and unmistakably contemporary meditation on the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.
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Hardback Editions
April 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Peace Author(s): Richard Bausch ISBN: 0-307-26833-0 / 978-0-307-26833-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Peace (Vintage Contemporaries) Author(s): Richard Bausch ISBN: 0-307-38858-1 / 978-0-307-38858-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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June 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: Peace Author(s): Richard Bausch ISBN: 1-4001-0768-7 / 978-1-4001-0768-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Tantor Media Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: Peace Author(s): Richard Bausch ISBN: 1-4001-3768-3 / 978-1-4001-3768-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Tantor Media Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: Peace: A Novel Author(s): Richard Bausch ISBN: 1-4001-5768-4 / 978-1-4001-5768-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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April 2008 : Kindle edition
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