Last Post
by Ford Madox Ford
Publisher: Duckworth 1928
ISBN/ASIN: B00FXXZFK4
Number of pages: 292
Description:
Last Post, the fourth and final volume of Parade's End, is set on a single post-war summer's day. Valentine Wannop and Christopher Tietjens share a cottage in Sussex with Tietjens' brother and sister-in-law. Through their differing perspectives, Ford explores the tensions between his characters in a changing world, haunted by the experience of war, facing an insecure future for themselves and for England.
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