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A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot

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A Very Long Engagement Information
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A Very Long Engagement (French: Un long dimanche de fiançailles) is a novel by Sebastien Japrisot, first published in 1993. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on a World War I...


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The Village Voice
A Very Long Engagement
11/24/2004: 559 words, approx. 2 pages
War, what is it good for? Amélie brain trust makes a date with destiny at the front lines. A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Warner Independent Opens November 26 LOVE IS A BATTLFIELD The title and...
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The Village Voice
A Very (Very) Long Engagement
02/28/2007: 1,312 words, approx. 4 pages
A Very (Very) Long Engagement Jacques Rivette's 12-plus-hour OuT 1 returns to MOMI. Embrace the marathon; bring snacks. Out 1: Noli Me Tangere Directed by Jacques Rivette March 3 and 4 Museum of the Moving Image BY J....
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Sideways, Ray, The Incredibles \'c9. The Best and Worst Movies of 2004
1/9/2005: 2,261 words, approx. 8 pages
As far as I can determine, 2004 seems to be neither the best nor the worst year for movies, at least as far as the proportion of good (low, as always) to bad (high, as always) is concerned. Of course, the technology keeps changing-often to...
 


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Critical Review by Richard Eder
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An American critic and journalist, Eder received the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. In the following highly favorable review of A Very Long Engagement, he argues that the novel is thematically richer than most mystery fiction, describing it as "a hybrid of the detective story and the classical quest."
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Critical Review by Michiko Kakutani
942 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Kakutani praises the clear language and philosophical themes of Japrisot's historical wartime thriller A Very Long Engagement.
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Critical Review by Rachel Billington
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Daughter of the seventh earl of Longford, Lady Rachel Mary Billington is an English novelist, nonfiction writer, author of children's literature, dramatist, and critic. In the following favorable review of A Very Long Engagement, she contends that the story is a morality tale about war.


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