A friend recently did me a great kindness by lending me a book that came out in March and received a rave review in the New York Times, yet I hadn't heard of it: In Memoriam by Alice Winn. (Why the Washington Post totally overlooked it, I have no idea, but it's a shame.) Set in World War I, the novel--Winn's first--contains elements of Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and several other books, but it remains fresh and original in its treatment of a love story between two teenage boys attending the same school. It's one of the best things I've read in a long time, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
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