Edita’s Reviews > Eight Stories: Tales of War and Loss > Status Update
Edita
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[...] the novel had its characters living, fighting, and dying in the inescapable present tense that made the war oppressively present to the reader, as well as shockingly real. The stories that began to appear in Collier’s between 1930 and 1934 did something uncannily different: they looked back on the wartime experience as something remembered across the passage of the decade.
— Jul 28, 2020 09:10PM
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Edita
is on page 33 of 192
Above these fields the lost years seem to stand, the years that have not been fulfilled—the call of the unlived life, that finds no rest—the cry of youth quenched too soon, in full career come to its end. Surely at night they burst up from the earth like ghostly blue fire.
— Jul 29, 2020 03:30AM
Edita
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And this feeling, so strangely compounded out of happiness, pain, melancholy, grief, desire and hopelessness, was the common experience of a soldier out resting.
— Jul 28, 2020 09:30PM
