Ebook {Epub PDF} The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys

Humphreys (Nocturne, , etc.) offers a heartbreaking yet redemptive story about loss and survival surrounding a British prisoner of war during World War II and the wife he barely got to know before his capture. After James’ plane is shot down on his first mission as an RAF pilot in , the former grammar school science teacher spends the rest of the war in POW camps, where he watches fellow prisoners Author: Helen Humphreys. The Evening Chorus is a beautiful, astonishing examination of love, loss, escape, and the ways in which the intrusions of the natural world can save us. Helen Humphreys is a Canadian novelist and poet. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. Humphreys' first novel, Leaving Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book in and won the City of Toronto Book Award. She is also the author of The Reinvention of Love, True Story, and The Evening Chorus.4/5(6).

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The Evening Chorus Helen Humphreys HarperCollins Canada pp ; $29 The scene: one man—a soft-spoken RAF pilot in training, specifically—in a Bavarian POW camp filled with two thousand other. The Evening Chorus is a beautiful, astonishing examination of love, loss, escape, and the ways in which the intrusions of the natural world can save us. “The Evening Chorus sparkles.” — Jo Baker “A poised, lyrical novel about the griefs of war, written with poetic intensity of observation.” — Helen Dunmore. The Evening Chorus, when all is said and done, is a formally conventional but for the most part satisfying yarn; a quiet novel about a calamitous event whose most trenchant passages show the cast.