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Snow Goose
Paul Gallico

Snow Goose

Knopf (Jun 27, 1941)
9780394445939
| Hardcover
64 pages | 127 x 190 mm | English
Dewey FIC Gal

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Dunkerque (France), Battle Of, 1940
  • Dunkerque (France), Battle Of, 1940 Fiction
  • Dunkirk, Battle Of, Dunkerque, France, 1940
  • Dunkirk, Battle Of, Dunkerque, France, 1940/ Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945

Plot

The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of DunkirkIn the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a disfigured artist lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse. Shunned by society, he spends his days painting scenes of the coast and the birds that migrate to the meadowlands every winter. His days are solitary until one November afternoon, a young girl from a nearby village comes to his door carrying a wounded snow goose in her arms. The unlikely pair develop a friendship that deepens over the ensuing years, waiting together for the arrival of the birds every autumn.In 1940, with England at war, the birds depart early from the shores. The man, too, is called away by his duty as an Englishman to help evacuate the soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. A moving tale of love, war, bravery, and sacrifice.

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