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02828aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 EB7E6CF06B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150220p20152013nyu 000 f eng d 010 $a 2015540794 020 $a 1623659035 020 $a 9781623659035 035 $a (OCoLC)907127681 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d SINLB $d PX0 $d OCLCO $d IWE $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 050 14 $a PQ2712 E485 A8313 2015 100 1 $a Lema©ʼtre, Pierre, $d 1951- $e author. 240 10 $a Au revoir l©-haut. $l English 245 14 $a The great swindle / $c Pierre Lemaitre ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne. 264 1 $a New York : $b MacLehose Press, $c [2015] 300 $a 442 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a First published in French as Au revoir l©-haut by Editions Albin Michel, Paris, in 2013. 546 $a In English, translated from the French. 520 $a "The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines. When another of D'Aulnay-Pradelle's soldiers, Albert Maillard, reaches the bodies and discovers how they died, the lieutenant shoves him into a shell hole to silence him. Albert is rescued by fellow soldier, the artist Edouard P©âricourt, who takes a bullet in the face. The war ends and both men recover, but Edouard is permanently disfigured, and fakes his death to prevent his family from seeing him as a cripple. In gratitude for Edouard's rescue, Albert becomes the injured man's companion and caregiver. Finding that the postwar gratitude for the soldiers' service is nothing more than lip-service to an empty idea, the two men scramble to survive, ultimately devising a scam to take money for never-to-be-built war memorials from small towns. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pradelle has married Edouard's sister Madeline and is running a scam of his own that involves the exhumation of war victims. In this sorrowful, heart-searching novel, the interwoven lives of these three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure."--provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Veterans $z France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Swindlers and swindling $v Fiction. 651 0 $a France $x History $y 1914-1940 $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Wynne, Frank, $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013221.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006091224.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180104033707.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB7E6CF06B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search