Jo Baker. (2016). A Country Road, a Tree: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Jo Baker. 2016. A Country Road, a Tree: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Jo Baker, A Country Road, a Tree: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2016.

Jo Baker. A Country Road, a Tree: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2016.

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From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a haunting new novel of spies and artists, passion and danger, hope in the face of despair
 
Paris, 1939. The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Élysées. A young, unknown writer—Samuel Beckett—recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon he will put them both in mortal danger by joining the Resistance . . .
Through it all we are witness to the workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express this shattered world. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination, and a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into one man’s timeless art.

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     March 21, 2016
     Baker’s intimate portrait of Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) focuses on the critical years 1939–1946, during which time Beckett began his relationship with Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, whom he later married; participated in the French Resistance, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre; and developed the modern perspective and minimalist style that earned him the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature. A brief prologue shows Beckett as a boy in Ireland climbing a tree while his mother tries in vain to keep him within the bounds of safety. Part One, entitled “The End,” flashes forward to England’s entry into World War II. Drinking, depressed, and home in Ireland after living in France, Beckett longs to return to Paris, although he’s haunted by his mother’s question: what possible use can he be there? Once back in France, without papers or income, Beckett reconnects with mentor/friend James Joyce, the great Irish author whose genius overshadows Beckett’s own frustrated attempts at writing. When German forces move into Paris, and one of Beckett’s dearest friends, a communist, is arrested, Beckett joins the Resistance, serving in Paris and the French countryside, first as a translator, then in combat. Examples of wartime decency and brutality, instances of courage and betrayal, periods of time when nothing happens, and shortages that limit life to essentials all stir Beckett’s sense of absurdity in modern life. Baker details how wartime experiences provide the key to Beckett’s transformation from Joyce disciple to distinctive literary voice. In this worthy successor to Longbourn, she skillfully captures Beckett’s world, the rhythms of his bare-bones prose, and the edginess of his point of view.

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