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Losing Julia
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Author: Jonathan Hull
Release Date: 2001-02-06
Manufacturer: Island Books
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Average Rating: 4.5
Total Customer Reviews: 130
List Price: $7.99
Our Price: $7.99
Sales Rank: 409768
Product Description
In a world torn apart by war, one man would search a lifetime to find what he once lost: a woman named Julia....
Losing Julia
Patrick Delaney was just a boy when he marched off to war in 1918. But on the stark battlefields of France, amid the horror and the chaos, Patrick forged a bond that would shape the course of his life. Daniel was Patrick's best friend, his comrade-in-arms. But it was Daniel's lover, Julia, who would change Patrick forever. Julia's letters, shared by Daniel in the muddy trenches, touched Patrick in ways he never could have expected. But years would pass before he finally met her at a war memorial in France. There, on a field still scarred by battle, Patrick closed his eyes in silent prayer and opened them to the woman he had never seen but always loved: Julia. After a brief, passionate encounter, Patrick made a fateful choice and Julia slipped away, perhaps never to return. It is just the beginning of an astonishing story that will span almost a century, a story of memory and desire, history and destiny--and of the people who slip from our grasp, only to hold us forever....
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Product Review Summary: Achingly Poignant Lesson on Life and Love Set in WWI France, this love story is unpredicatable and so very moving and powerful; I am still pondering Hull's ambivalent message.
Product Review Summary: Truly different, but well worth it It's taken me a couple months to read this book. I've had to put it down for a few days and then pick it back up when I was in the mood to read it again.
The novel is written in Patrick's, an 80-year-old World War I veteran, perspective. He flashbacks to the time in the war and a time about 10 years after it. In the war, he becomes friends with a fellow soldier named Daniel. Daniel has a girlfriend named Julia back in the US and, through Daniel's musings, Patrick begins to fall in love with Julia.
Patrick finally meets Julia at a memorial in France 10 years later. They share a special bond that cannot progress because Patrick is already married.
The novel is not written chronologically, with the War first, followed by the memorial, and finished with old age. Instead, it is written truly like an old man remembering his past experiences. The descriptions of the war are unbelievable and the mutterings of a lonely old man are eye-opening. The one-liners can be so moving, making a person want to reach out and console Patrick.
Even though it is a serious, somewhat hard, read, I recommend anyone to take the time to read the book from beginning to end. Only then will a person be able to understand the depth of this book.
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Product Review Summary: I loved it I generally don't like or read love stories, but this one, set against the backdrop of WWI, was more intelligent than most. It seems that few books are written about this time period anymore, and I found the setting interesting for a love story. I loved it. If you like American history, and can handle a love story, give it a try.
Product Review Summary: An enjoyable debut novel Enjoyed the CD version of LOSING JULIA, a debut novel by
Jonathan Hull.
It is the story of a 19-year old soldier from New Jersey off
to fight the Great War, told in the form of a diary that looks
back at the defining periods of his life . . . there's skipping
back and forth between his various ages (up through his time
in a nursing home) that's confusing at first . . . but once you
get into the head of Patrick Delaney, the main character,
you'll never want the story to end.
You'll be moved by the love story that he tells, as well as
his graphic accounts of what it's like to fight in war.
The ending left me wanting to read the author's next
book, a 1994 novel entitled THE DISTANCE FROM
NORMANDY . . . I'm frankly surprised that he does not
seem to have written anything since, nor that LOSING JULIA
wasn't ever made into a movie.
Ralph Waite's narration added to my enjoyment of the book
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