The absolutist
By: John Boyne
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781445857961
Subjects: Friendship; Fiction; Soldiers; World War, 1914-1918; Campaigns; Conscientious objectors; Military campaigns
Description: "September 1919: 20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian{u2019}s brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan{u2019}s visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. As he recalls his friendship with Will, from the training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern France, he speaks of how the intensity of their friendship brought him both happiness and self-discovery as well as despair and pain"--Publisher description.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Doubleday, 2011.