In Memoriam

A Novel

eBook, 400 pages

English language

Published July 9, 2023 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-593-53457-1
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OCLC Number:
1285369098

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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, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting.

Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle–an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood–without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt’s family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt’s horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, historical, 20th century, world war i
  • England, fiction
  • World war, 1914-1918, fiction
  • Fiction, lgbtq+, gay