As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love
affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young
woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her
flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks.
When she receives letters from her husband, they burn them
together. Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their
affair, even when it causes a scandal among their friends and
neighbours. Instead, they hurtle towards tragedy. Written in spare,
haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, this
semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller and its
author was hailed as a genius before his tragic death at the age of
twenty. Expressing all the anguish and joy of adolescence, it is a
work of startling imagery and subtle beauty. Translated by Robert
Baldick with an introduction by Fay Weldon
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