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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Manning, Olivia.     Cusk, Rachel, writer of introduction.     Subjects     World War (1939-1945)     World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Manning, Olivia.      Cusk, Rachel, writer of introduction.       by title:      The Fortunes of war....         MARC Display

The Fortunes of war. The Balkan trilogy / Olivia Manning ; introduction by Rachel Cusk. by Manning, Olivia., Cusk, Rachel, writer of introduction. New York : New York Review Books, ©2010. Series:  New York Review Books classics Description:  xii, 924 pages ; 21 cm. Contents:  The great fortune -- The spoilt city -- Friends and heroes. Summary:  The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. Manning's focus is not the battlefield but the caf?e and kitchen, the bedroom and street, the fabric of the everyday world that has been irrevocably changed by war, yet remains unchanged. At the heart of the trilogy are newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest--the so-called Paris of the East--in the fall of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy, an Englishman teaching at the university, is as wantonly gregarious as his wife is introverted, and Harriet is shocked to discover that she must share her adored husband with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own, as great in its way as the still-expanding theater of war. Genre:  Fiction. Fiction.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 823.914 Man 2010 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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