The Snow Goose: A Story Of Dunkirk
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the vast, lonely marshes of the Essex coast, a reclusive, hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an unlikely companion — a wounded snow goose — and, through it, forges an extraordinary bond with a shy young village girl named Fritha. Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose is a tender and luminous novella set against the turbulent backdrop of the Second World War, building to a heartbreaking climax during the miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, where Rhayader sails his small boat into the chaos of battle, guided by the great white bird overhead. Gallico writes with a spare, poetic precision that transforms a simple story of nature and human connection into a profound meditation on sacrifice, beauty, and the redemptive power of love found in the most unlikely of souls. First published in 1941, this slim masterpiece has endured as one of the most beloved short works of wartime literature in the English language, celebrated for its elegiac tone and its ability to devastate the reader with quiet, understated emotion. Its brevity is its greatest weapon — a story so perfectly formed that every sentence carries the weight of a novel, leaving the reader to wonder whether true grace is ever truly lost.
Author: Paul Gallico
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Michael Joseph
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the vast, lonely marshes of the Essex coast, a reclusive, hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an unlikely companion — a wounded snow goose — and, through it, forges an extraordinary bond with a shy young village girl named Fritha. Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose is a tender and luminous novella set against the turbulent backdrop of the Second World War, building to a heartbreaking climax during the miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, where Rhayader sails his small boat into the chaos of battle, guided by the great white bird overhead. Gallico writes with a spare, poetic precision that transforms a simple story of nature and human connection into a profound meditation on sacrifice, beauty, and the redemptive power of love found in the most unlikely of souls. First published in 1941, this slim masterpiece has endured as one of the most beloved short works of wartime literature in the English language, celebrated for its elegiac tone and its ability to devastate the reader with quiet, understated emotion. Its brevity is its greatest weapon — a story so perfectly formed that every sentence carries the weight of a novel, leaving the reader to wonder whether true grace is ever truly lost.