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	Sebastian Faulks
		Sebastian Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 and was educated at Wellington College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
		Faulks is a Francophile (with an agreeably European slant on the whole question of 'Englishness'), and he writes in a lushly descriptive vein about the pleasures of sexual passion, food and drink, the French small town and its surrounding landscape, as well as the anguish of separation and the wounding effects of the past.
		Faulks' writing is compelling, at times superb, when detailing the gory details of the trenches and the intensely emotional relationships between men under fire, or waiting for a signal to attack, or seeking to rescue the wounded, and the mixture of deference and resentment obtaining between officers and men.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth3 (1432 words)

	Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is a measure of the brilliance of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong that his prose makes palpable to the emotions such a bloody killing field as this, and the
		In the opening passage of another great novel of the First World War, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the image of pregnancy is employed in the description of a troop of heavily armed men trudging to the next killing field -- a portent of death; later, an unsought and unwanted pregnancy results in death.
		Faulks, no more than Hemingway, does not attempt to make "points" in his novel, but the birth of children in Birdsong is seen always as redemptive, especially the present-day birth at the conclusion, described as it is from the perspective of the women.
	www.rambles.net /faulks_birdsong.html (578 words)

	Amazon.ca: Birdsong CD: Books: Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Faulks does a masterful job of capturing the mood of the War, particularly when describing the miners underneath the trenches.
		Seeing that she is trapped in a passionless, amotional marriage, he persuades her to return to England, but the onset of war and her pregnancy (which she keeps secret) doom the relationship and Wraysford is sent to the killing grounds of the Somme, where the carnage and unspeakable atrocities haunt him interminably.
		Faulks parallels this with Wraysford's daughter searching for memories of her Grandfather but the genuine interest is in the conflict, where such evocative images and unimaginable violence will test the resolve of even the hardiest of readers.
	www.amazon.ca /Birdsong-CD-Sebastian-Faulks/dp/1856869202 (2056 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: On Green Dolphin Street: Books: Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Faulks, whose previous novels have included bestsellers Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, has the capacity to sweep his readers up in his historical sagas and excels in his unflinching treatment of war.
		Faulks has realised how people work, how people relate to other people, and how everything fits, and his ideas and clever writing allows you to see how things really are(and were), and to appreciate not only life, but the chances you receive.
		I find that Sebastian Faulks' books alway remind me of a film version of historical events, rather than giving an impression of "that's what it must have been like." And just like a glossy film by someone like Anthony Minghella, his books are enjoyable but not quite as profound as they think they are.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Green-Dolphin-Street-Sebastian-Faulks/dp/0091802105 (1197 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "On Green Dolphin Street" by Sebastian Faulks
		Its centerpiece is the presidential race between Kennedy and Nixon, and Faulks gives us a clear-eyed snapshot of a specific time in America, a time when we unknowingly leapt the gulf between the cozy Eisenhower '50s and the uncertain but dazzling excitement of what the '60s, after the Kennedy assassination, would become.
		But Faulks continually reinforces her capability, resolve and inner balance, keeping her from dissolving into a caricature of a '60s housewife.
		And Faulks is astute about the differences between men and women, but blessedly, he's not blindly obsessed with them.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2002/02/21/faulks/index.html (734 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Faulks is involved in a romance with detail, charging every object and every gesture with emotion and significance.
		Faulks is best known for his "French trilogy," three books that describe life and love between the two World Wars.
		Faulks dwells on the small particulars of their interaction, but only with "Birdsong," the second book of the trilogy, does his talent for detail come to full fruition.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1233 (552 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Kate Kellaway talks to Sebastian Faulks, a 'must-read' novelist and the Balzac of ...
		Faulks has suffered depression in his life - and taken pills for it - but says you need to be sane to write about madness.
		Faulks once said his motto was, 'La vie s'arrange, mais autrement' (Life works out - but not in the way you expect).
		In the acknowledgments at the back of Human Traces, his mother is formally saluted: 'My mother, Pamela Faulks, did not live to read this book, but convinced me many years ago that it was legitimate to have an interest in the way the mind works.' I ask about her and he tells her story.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1552749,00.html (2210 words)

	authortrek.com - Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks reading guide
		Faulks is using the benefit of hindsight here, as most readers will know that Saint-Exupery was a French pilot who later died in a crash.
		Faulks' historical accuracy is conveyed by the direct quotation of the disgusting Milice oath.
		Faulks reveals the kinds of truths that France itself has only started admitting in the nineties (and this is maybe what the subplot with Charlotte's father is all about).
	www.authortrek.com /charlotte_gray.html (1647 words)

	Sebastian Faulks And The Tug - Of - War \| Arts and Entertainment \| BBC World Service
		In the mid 1990s the English novelist Sebastian Faulks shot to fame with Birdsong, a novel set in the trenches of World War I. It was quickly followed by Charlotte Gray, a tale of the French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II.
		Sebastian Faulks's sixth novel, marks a departure in the writer's style.
		From such tantalising beginnings, Faulks began to weave the story of a 40-something English woman called Mary who accompanies her diplomat husband, Charlie, to America in the late 1950s and there falls in love with a hard-bitten, left wing New York journalist.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/arts/highlights/010516_faulks.shtml (1002 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| CHARLOTTE GRAY by Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From bestselling author Sebastian Faulks comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.
		In fled-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him.
		Faulks uses the same verb, "disappear," along with other parallels in describing the fates of the young Duguay brothers (page 370) and of Charlotte and Gregory (page 399).
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/charlotte_gray.asp (468 words)

	Faulks, Sebastian in general - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Faulks, Sebastian in general : Sebastian faulks-Amazing Author.
		I may not be the most appropriate person to write on the subject of Sebastian Faulks, Although I have read a couple of his books.
		In this tale Faulks's language, such as the power of the imagery he uses to bring a horrific tale of war to life, make it so realistic the want to read on is overwhelming.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/faulks-sebastian-in-general (237 words)

	Amazon.com: Charlotte Gray (Vintage International): Books: Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But Faulks falters when he asks us to believe that pragmatic young Scotswoman Charlotte Gray is so transformed by her love for RAF airman Peter Gregory that she determines to parachute into France to find him after he disappears on a mission somewhere in the Free Zone.
		Yet Faulks undermines these effective scenes with a plot device that fizzles: veiled hints about Charlotte's "betrayal and violation" by her father when she was a child.
		Faulks seems to make everyone but Charlotte flawed and of course everything is easy for Charlotte to get to France to find her love.
	www.amazon.com /Charlotte-Vintage-International-Sebastian-Faulks/dp/0375704558 (2424 words)

	Faulks Sebastian - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Faulks Sebastian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Faulks, Sebastian (1953-), English novelist, whose trilogy of best-selling historical novels about France during World Wars I and II examines the...
		According to tradition he was a captain of the Praetorian Guard but was also secretly a...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Faulks_Sebastian.html (104 words)

	Birdsong: Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This one is. The writing is impressive throughout; Faulk's prose is always exact and elegant and occasionally it rises to real lyricism, without ever sounding forced.
		Undoubtedly Faulks has done his homework and you always feel that his descriptions are based on documented fact, but they are so well integrated into the narrative that you never have the impression of being given a history lesson.
		This is in spite of the fact that some central scenes in the novel are set in a relatively unfamiliar context, that of the mining tunnels that both sides constructed between their respective trench networks.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/faulks-1.html (648 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Birdsong: Books: Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sebastian Faulks's "Birdsong": Continuum Contemporaries by Pat Wheeler
		Overall Sebastian Faulks's style is primitive and unoriginal, with quite hackneyed phrasing.
		Faulks is outstanding on historical detail and the novel really kicks in once we get to the trenches, Faulks having an admirable lack of sentimentality about how people's lives were utterly destroyed by the 'great' war, including those who came home.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Birdsong-Sebastian-Faulks/dp/0099387913 (1520 words)

	Sebastian Faulks
		It is hard to imagine anyone who enjoyed the last novel not finding great interest and pleasure in this one.
		In Charlotte, Faulks has created a wonderfully complex and engaging heroine, with whom it is hard not to fall a little in love."
		"Faulks has the rare gift of being popular and literary at the same time.
	www.rigzin.freeservers.com /interview.html (3729 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks, reviewed by Salon.com
		That's just one of the questions the English writer Sebastian Faulks asks, and answers, in his wrenchingly delicate novel On Green Dolphin Street.
		Plenty of people have written novels of romance and intrigue set during World War II, and Faulks is one of them: His The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray are all set in wartime France.
		She's the least troubled of all the book's characters — which may be why we grow to feel the most fiercely protective of her.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_04_26.html (687 words)

	Sebastian Faulks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		88.108.94.154 14:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)Sebastian Faulks (born 20 April 1953) is a British journalist and former Literary Editor of The Independent newspaper who became a novelist.
		Sebastian Faulks appears regularly on British TV and Radio - most particularly as a team captain on BBC Radio 4's Literary quiz The Write Stuff.
		He lives next door to his brother, QC Edward Faulks, his wife Catherine, and their two children Leo and Archie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sebastian_Faulks (211 words)

	The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks : Booksamillion.com (0375727442, Paperback)
		Bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks' first work of nonfiction is a biography of three remarkable men who possessed the seeds of greatness, but whose lives were cut short.
		And Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed as the brightest Englishman of his generation, was a spy, an alcoholic, and an open homosexual in Cold War Moscow; he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness.
		Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique portrait of English society as it changed from the Victorian era to the modern world.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375727442 (169 words)

	Amazon.fr : Birdsong: Livres en anglais: Sebastian Faulks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Readers who are entranced by the sweeping Anglo sagas of Masterpiece Theatre will devour Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks's historical drama.
		Faulks (A Fool's Alphabet) proves himself a grand storyteller here.
		Enlivened with considerable historical detail related through accomplished prose, his narrative flows with a pleasingly appropriate recklessness that brings his characters to dynamic life.
	www.amazon.fr /Birdsong-Sebastian-Faulks/dp/0099387913 (512 words)

	authortrek.com - Sebastian Faulks page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-01.bu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sebastian Faulks was born in 1953, and grew up in Newbury, the son of a judge and a repertory actress.
		Most of Sebastian Faulks’ novels have a war theme, although this is usually blended with more than a touch of romance.
		Sebastian Faulks was awarded the CBE in 2002.
	www.authortrek.com.cob-web.org:8888 /sebastian_faulks_page.html (412 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Faulks beats Starr in bad sex award
		Faulks fought off tough competition from Kenneth Starr's report into the Monica Lewinsky scandal and former British foreign secretary Douglas Hurd's latest thriller.
		Faulks, who topped the best seller list and won critical acclaim for his World War I saga Birdsong, won the award for his latest novel Charlotte Gray.
		Some of his prize winning prose included the passage: "Meanwhile her ears were filled with the sound of a soft but frantic gasping and it was some time before she identified it as her own."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/223065.stm (347 words)

	Bookreporter.com - ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET by Sebastian Faulks
		Mary and Frank's relationship is a given, like a hurricane or tidal wave; it doesn't seem to suffer from the slings and arrows that ordinary lovers are constantly ducking.
		There is a cosmic sadness to these events, as if Faulks and his melancholy heroes are grieving in advance for greater troubles to come.
		While that may be accurate in terms of the role women were expected to play 40 years ago, it splits the book down the middle: Faulks never quite manages to fuse his story of love and personal transformation with the currents of social change.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375704566.asp (863 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sebastian Faulks - The Girl at the Lion D'or at Epinions.com
		All the stories are concerned with war but Lion D'or is primarily concerned with a love story of a poor orphan, Anne and the man she meets and falls in love with, Hartmann.
		Faulk's brings to life the hotel and all it's characters, transporting you to another time and place.
		As Anne slowly reveals to us and Hartmann her childhood we are drawn a picture of this young girl who has endured more than any human should have to.
	www.epinions.com /content_28777549444 (452 words)

	Birdsong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Birdsong and Charlotte Gray are firmly set in the arenas of war, but in both novels Faulks vividly depicts the personal lives of his characters.
		We are made vividly aware of people who are much like ourselves, but whose lives have been thrown into chaos by events far greater than any they have ever known before.
		Sebastian Faulks was born in Newbury, England, in 1953.
	www.bloomsbury.com /ReadersGroups/ReadersGuides.asp?isbn=0099387913 (1313 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
		Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present.
		As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient.
		Sebastian Faulks is best known for his trilogy of novels set in France: The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray, the latter two of which were bestsellers.
	randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679776818&view=rg (285 words)

	BookClubs.ca \| Books \| Pistache by Sebastian Faulks
		Pistache will be received with great delight by fans of Sebastian Faulks.
		“Faulks emerges as a writer with muscle, with affinities to the great Europeans: Thomas Mann, Balzac, Stendhal.
		Sebastian Faulks is the author of seven previous novels, including Birdsong (1993), The Girl at the Lion d’Or (1989), Charlotte Gray (1998), On Green Dolphin Street (2001) and Human Traces (2005).
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780091797072 (195 words)

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