Thomas the Impostor (Paperback, Paperback ed)

Cocteau's breakthrough novel on the horrors of World War I. Too young to fight, Thomas assumes a noble ancestry, adds a few extra years to his age, and becomes a soldier. In this guise, he meets the society star Princess de Bormes and her impressionable daughter Henriette. While the princess pursues charity work with the wounded, Henriette falls in love with Guillaume. However, Guillaume, resplendent in army uniform and issued with a shiny revolver, is lost like a child in a fantasy land of their own creation. At the novel's denouement, he clings to his imposture, but in mind, if not body, he has grasped the real meaning of war. This visionary novel is a "hymn to the cult of youth" in which World War I battlefields become an exaggerated spectacle where fiction and reality are inseparable.

General

Imprint:	Peter Owen Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Peter Owen Modern Classics
Release date:	February 2006
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	Jean Cocteau
Dimensions:	187 x 146 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
Edition:	Paperback ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7206-1252-3
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > First World War fiction Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-7206-1252-7
Barcode:	9780720612523

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