Moon Tiger | Social Concerns

Moon Tiger Social Concerns

Taking as its alleged subjects both the history of the world and the personal biography of one person, Moon Tiger demonstrates the way our private lives are inevitably affected by public goings-on. The protagonist is an elderly woman, Claudia Hampton, who recounts the story of her life: a genteel Devon upbringing, careers as a controversial historian and as a World War II correspondent covering the Rommel campaign in Egypt, numerous love affairs, and the bearing and raising of a daughter — the product of one of these affairs. With the sensibility of an historian, Claudia places her own life in an historical context, constantly reminding us of the larger forces that have shaped and informed it. Thus we learn that World War I took her father's life; World War II gave her Tom Southern, the young tank commander she met in Egypt and fell deeply and tragically in love with...
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