Donkey Boy (1996)

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I didn't get through the whole of the chronicles of ancient sunlight which i think is the complete set but i got through the first 3 or 4. These are all brilliant. the history of henry W is incidental to what he did with these books. They rank up there with graves goodbye to all that as a description of the first world war. The sheer detail from a man who was there, the way he has put that experience down to the level of the person is phenomenal. The character is the soldier who tries to make a reasonable life when he is exposed to the sheer unbelievable horror of war. Set in a situation where he comes back from these experiences and finds the world at home is still going on as usual. And he tries to fit in. Henry is a master writer and the books are unsung masterpieces. The canvas is almost too large to describe. In some ways it fits into diary of a nobody which is a comedy in the first 2 or three. But this is no comedy and there is no relieving the pressure and poignancy of the experiences from the first sad glad army of 1914 right through to the end.

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