The great swindle
"The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines. When another of D'Aulnay-Pradelle's soldiers, Albert...
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| 001 | ocn907127681 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20180309143800.0 | ||
| 008 | 150220s2015 nyu 000 1 eng d | ||
| 010 | |a 2015540794 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781623659035 (hardcover) | ||
| 020 | |a 1623659035 (hardcover) | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)907127681 | ||
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| 050 | 1 | 4 | |a PQ2712.E485 |b A8313 2015 |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 843/.92 |2 23 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Lemaître, Pierre, |d 1951- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The great swindle / |c Pierre Lemaitre ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b MacLehose Press, |c 2015. | |
| 300 | |a 442 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-442). | ||
| 500 | |a "First published in French as Au revoir là-haut by Editions Albin Michel, Paris, in 2013."--T.p. verso. | ||
| 520 | |a "The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines. When another of D'Aulnay-Pradelle's soldiers, Albert Maillard, reaches the bodies and discovers how they died, the lieutenant shoves him into a shell hole to silence him. Albert is rescued by fellow soldier, the artist Edouard Péricourt, who takes a bullet in the face. The war ends and both men recover, but Edouard is permanently disfigured, and fakes his death to prevent his family from seeing him as a cripple. In gratitude for Edouard's rescue, Albert becomes the injured man's companion and caregiver. Finding that the postwar gratitude for the soldiers' service is nothing more than lip-service to an empty idea, the two men scramble to survive, ultimately devising a scam to take money for never-to-be-built war memorials from small towns. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pradelle has married Edouard's sister Madeline and is running a scam of his own that involves the exhumation of war victims. In this sorrowful, heart-searching novel, the interwoven lives of these three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure."--provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1914-1918 |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Veterans |z France |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Swindlers and swindling |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a France |x History |y 1914-1940 |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction |z France. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wynne, Frank, |e translator. | |
| 938 | |a Baker and Taylor |b BTCP |n BK0016557039 | ||
| 938 | |a Brodart |b BROD |n 112157246 | ||
| 994 | |a C0 |b PCB | ||
| 949 | |a schlow |b SAFIC |c Lemaitre |d o |e 39635103462138 |f 580298 |g loc |j 08/12/2015 | ||
| 999 | |a 378643 | ||
