{"product_id":"wave-me-goodbye-1","title":"Wave Me Goodbye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years'' \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Each story in \u003ci\u003eWave Me Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e is a relic of the Second World War'' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This is as stark and acidic a collection of war stories as you will read . . . Stripped bare of the sentimentalism attached to love in wartime'' \u003ci\u003eSCOTSMAN \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of wartime stories includes some of the finest writers of a generation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWar had traditionally been seen as a masculine occupation, but these stories show how women were equal if different participants. Here, war is less about progress on the frontline of battle than about the daily struggle to keep homes, families and relationships alive; to snatch pleasure from danger, and strength from shared experience. The stories are about saying goodbye to husbands, lovers, brothers and sons - and sometimes years later trying to remake their lives anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turn comical, stoical, compassionate, angry and subversive, these intensely individual voices bring a human dimension to the momentous events that reverberated around them and each opens a window on to a hidden landscape of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriters include: Jean Rhys, Beryl Bainbridge, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Stevie Smith, Rosamond Lehmann, Barbara Pym, Angela Thirkell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy Parker, Doris Lessing, Olivia Manning, Rose Macaulay and Stevie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319122731390,"sku":"NW9780349012612","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780349012612.jpg?v=1778727064","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/wave-me-goodbye-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}