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003			OCoLC
005			20230811164848.0
008			211115s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2021053841
019			_a1285371908
020			_a9780593534564
035			_a(OCoLC)1285369098 _z(OCoLC)1285371908
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dBDX _dYDX _dMiTN
050	0	0	_aPS3623 .I6629 _bI5 2023
099			_aF _aWIN
100	1		_aWinn, Alice _q(Alice Mary Felicity), _d1992-
245	1	0	_aIn memoriam / _cby Alice Winn.
264		1	_aNew York NY : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2023.
300			_apages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_a"It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action. Their heroic deaths only make the war more exciting. Gaunt, half-German, is busy fighting his own private battle- an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the gorgeous, rich, charming Ellwood-not having a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. Meanwhile, Gaunt's German mother and twin sister ask him to enlist as an officer in the British army to protect the family from the anti-German attacks they're already facing. Gaunt signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him, fueled by his education in Greek heroics and romantic wartime poetry. Before long, most of their classmates have followed suit. Once in the trenches, the boys become intimately acquainted with the harsh realities of war. Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one other, but their friends are all dying, often in front of them, and no one knows when they'll be next"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _vFiction.
651		0	_aEngland _vFiction.
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft.
655		7	_aWar fiction. _2lcgft.
999			_c523645 _d523645