Title: Dreadful purple prose
Product review: I was relieved to see all the bad reviews of this book here on Amazon. I bought it in the airport on the strength of the National Book Award and the fact that she used to hang out with Graham Greene. I was so angry after about 20 pages that if I had been at home and not on a plane I would have ripped the book up and stomped on it.The other reviewers do a good job at conveying the agony of reading Hazzard's prose: "stilted" is an understatement.If you want WWII upper-class English-Army-officer fiction conveyed in beautifully refined prose, read or re-read the war novels of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh instead of this pretentious boring malarkey.
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