Reviews
"Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a prefect novel--just a great one."--Simon Schama, New Yorker "Superb. . . unrelenting and disapassionate. . . genuinely cathartic." -- The New York Times Book Review "Birdsong moved me more profoundly than anything I've read in years. . . . A deeply compassionate, utterly thrilling work by a master of the form." --Frank Conroy "Worthy in every way of its honors and success. . . . The accounts of combat, ringing with credibility and authenticity, are among the finest that I have ever read." --George Garrett, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Solidly plotted, vividly imagined, with a forgiving, God's-eye view of human frailty. . . . This strenuous and poignant effort to shore up memory deserves our gratitude." -- Newsday "A contemporary novel that...earns a place on the shelf with true literature. . . . Superb storytelling and craftsmanship." -- People "Powerful and well-paced. . . an excellent literary introduction to the Great War." --Philadelphia Inquirer "An amazing book--among the most stirringly erotic I have read for years...I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit." --Quentin Crewe, Daily Mail "This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again."--Andrew James, Sunday Express "One of the finest novels of the last 40 years."--Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday "This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it."--Nigel Watts, Time Out, "Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a prefect novel-just a great one."-Simon Schama, New Yorker "Superb. . . unrelenting and disapassionate. . . genuinely cathartic." -- The New York Times Book Review "Birdsong moved me more profoundly than anything I've read in years. . . . A deeply compassionate, utterly thrilling work by a master of the form." --Frank Conroy "Worthy in every way of its honors and success. . . . The accounts of combat, ringing with credibility and authenticity, are among the finest that I have ever read." --George Garrett, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Solidly plotted, vividly imagined, with a forgiving, God's-eye view of human frailty. . . . This strenuous and poignant effort to shore up memory deserves our gratitude." -- Newsday "A contemporary novel that...earns a place on the shelf with true literature. . . . Superb storytelling and craftsmanship." -- People "Powerful and well-paced. . . an excellent literary introduction to the Great War." --Philadelphia Inquirer "An amazing book-among the most stirringly erotic I have read for years...I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit."-Quentin Crewe, Daily Mail "This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again."-Andrew James, Sunday Express "One of the finest novels of the last 40 years."-Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday "This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it."-Nigel Watts, Time Out, "Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a prefect novel-just a great one."-Simon Schama, New Yorker "Superb. . . unrelenting and disapassionate. . . genuinely cathartic." - The New York Times Book Review "Birdsong moved me more profoundly than anything I've read in years. . . . A deeply compassionate, utterly thrilling work by a master of the form." -Frank Conroy "Worthy in every way of its honors and success. . . . The accounts of combat, ringing with credibility and authenticity, are among the finest that I have ever read." -George Garrett, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Solidly plotted, vividly imagined, with a forgiving, God's-eye view of human frailty. . . . This strenuous and poignant effort to shore up memory deserves our gratitude." - Newsday "A contemporary novel that...earns a place on the shelf with true literature. . . . Superb storytelling and craftsmanship." - People "Powerful and well-paced. . . an excellent literary introduction to the Great War." -Philadelphia Inquirer "An amazing book-among the most stirringly erotic I have read for years...I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit." -Quentin Crewe, Daily Mail "This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again."-Andrew James, Sunday Express "One of the finest novels of the last 40 years."-Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday "This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it."-Nigel Watts, Time Out
