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Peacetime (Hardcover)

by Robert Edric (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 329 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (3 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385602979
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385602976
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 605,483 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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" Edric is one of those immensely skilled novelists who seems fated to be discovered insultingly late in a productive career when caught in the arbitrary spotlight of Booker nomination or television adaptation. Booksellers take note: this is a writer to put into the hands of people looking for ' someone new' ." -- Patrick Gale, "Independent"

D.J. Taylor, Sunday Times
'It will be mystifying if, 50 years hence, Edric isn't taught in schools'

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Piece of Time in the Shadow of War, 3 Nov 2002
By Finn Agger "finnagger" (Denmark) - See all my reviews
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The main character has a young girl in his binoculars in the beginning. It could turn into a lovestory. He could become her first love, but he is old enough to be a father figure. So the reader is left in suspense about that. Then her father arrives, and he is a rather shady character, I have rarely come across such an unpleasant man in a novel. Some times I did not like to read about him and longed for the next chapter. We are in the aftermath of war and holocaust, so there is not much consolation to find here, but it seems to sum up the gut experience of WW2, as if this comes from real life which renders the joy of knowing, the joy of seeing. You should read this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars drifting sand, 2 Feb 2004
By monlibu "monlibu" (london) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peacetime (Paperback)
Peacetimes cover synopsis plot is attractive. Post war 1946, Fenland coast, a small insular community adjusting to its once strategic position as an airbase for German bombing raids and North Sea ship lane protection gun platforms. The war is over, the personnel have gone home and all that is left is the demolition of the airfield and the infrastructure of homeland defence, lead by an enigmatic engineer outsider called Mercer. Into the mix throw a German prisoner of war unable and unwilling to return home, working on the airfield demolition, and a Jewish concentration camp survivor, living rough and meditating on the loss of his entire family to the Nazi regime. Not surprisingly all three struggle to integrate into the community who themselves are torn apart by family struggles and adjusting to the new world.

For all that promise, and a surprising Booker long-list nomination, Peacetime is a mediocre book. Driven by dialogue, our scene-scape is as flat as the Fenland it glances at describing. Edric fails on almost every level to articulate any character beyond shallow stereotype. He makes many attempts to build tension such as a mysterious midnight visitor lurking ominously around Mercer's tower - only to deflate it like a sorry balloon with several holes in. So Peacetime is often contrived and trite. Plot lines are introduced with the shallowest of pretexts. Its literary technique laid bare so you can see the dots that joined it, painting by numbers with the digits sticking through.

A novel decidedly lacking in any ambition or skill. For a read exploring the destruction of a community with heartfelt compassion, poetry and well drawn characters, see Sarah Halls Haweswater. Peacetime is pale and insipid by comparison.

If Edric deserves his plaudits then it may pay to investigate his other work. He certainly has some good ideas.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Convincing read, 6 Sep 2007
By maple tree (Somerset, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I fail to agree with the previous reviewer's evaluation of this book, which, for me, had and maintained a strong and convincing presence and atmosphere, if a subdued and restrained one, throughout. The tone of the story-telling and the characterisation of the main figures seemed coherent, and the sketchyness of the descriptons fits the uncertainty and vagueness of their existences.
Of course, one could have told the outlined story differently - it would then have been a different book .... To me this one is quite credible, if dark in tone(it is not likely to cheer you up).
I have not read other books by Robert Edric and had not heard of him until recently but I am now going to look further at his work on the merit of his writing skills.
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