The Great Lover
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Overview:
- Title: The Great Lover
- Author: Dan Simmons
- Year: 1993
- Type: Short Fiction
Synopsis:
An anti-war WWI novella that exceeds even Kubrick's Paths of Glory in its depiction of the real-world horrors of war. Structured in the form of the "lost journals" of James Edwin Rooke - a fictional poet much celebrated in the years following the war, who built his career on collections of war-related poetry. While serving as a British officer in the trenches at the Battle of Somme, Rooke is occasionally visited by a strange apparition, usually presaging and interfering with some event which would have otherwise taken his life.
Awards:
- 1996. le Grand amant [vt The Great Lover] Imaginaire, Nouvelle étrangère (Win)
Editions/Publications:
- 1993. LoveDeath (November 1993, Dan Simmons Warner Books, ISBN-10: 0446517569, $19.95, xxiv+310 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
- 1994. LoveDeath (November 1994, Dan Simmons Warner Vision, ISBN-10: 0446600776, $5.99, xxvii+354 pages, Paperback, Collection)
- 1996. New Masterpieces of Horror (1996, John Gregory Betancourt Barnes & Noble, ISBN-10: 1566197902, $7.98, xiv+514 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
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