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Claire Letemendia author of The Best of Men
Claire Letemendia explains how her budding academic career led to her debut novel, The Best of Men.
photo credit: Deenah Dunkelman Mollin
Claire Letemendia explains how her budding academic career led to her debut novel, The Best of Men.
photo credit: Deenah Dunkelman Mollin
Hardcover | 692 pages | Fiction; Fiction - Historical
McClelland & Stewart | 978-0-7710-5270-5
May 12, 2009
$34.99
It is 1642, and Laurence Beaumont has just returned to England after six long years fighting — and avoiding fighting — in the European Wars. Having fled his home to escape the responsibilities of his noble birthright, he has been a lowly infantryman in Spain, a spy for the Germans, and a cardsharp in a Dutch brothel. He has seen horrors visited upon men, women, and children by enemy and ally alike, and he no longer has faith in God, in causes, or even in humankind itself.
