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The Song Before It Is Sung

A Novel

The Song Before It Is Sung( )
Author: Cartwright, Justin
ISBN:978-1-59691-269-4
Publication Date:Jun 2008
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.99
Book Description:

From the Booker Prize nominee and Whitbread Prize winner, a sweeping novel about the nature of human freedom and human passion that received glowing praise in hardcover. On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He found the main conspirators and had them hanged from meat hooks. Axel, Count von Gottberg, was one of those hanged by Hitler. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior, a former student of one of Axel's most trusted friends, is left some of...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Friendship
Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.63 x 8.21 x 0.79 Inches
Book Weight:0.81 Pounds
Author Biography
Cartwright, Justin (Author)
Justin Cartwright was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1945. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford. Before becoming an author, he worked in advertising and in film and documentary directing. He wrote 13 novels including Interior, Look at It This Way, White Lightning, Half in Love, The Promise of Happiness, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven by Water, Other People's Money, Lion Heart, and Up Against the Night. In Every Face I Meet won a Commonwealth Writers Prize and Leading the Cheers won the Whitbread Novel Award. He also wrote three non-fiction books entitled Not Yet Home, This Secret Garden, and Oxford Revisited. He died on December 3, 2018 at the age of 73.

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