Explorations Read-Aloud: “Goodbye to All That” by Robert Graves

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.

For December 1, Coté will read aloud from Robert Graves’ autobiography Goodbye to All That.

On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I comes this edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.

Summary:  Goodbye to All  That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. The memoir documents not only his own personal experience, as a patriotic young officer, of the horrors and disillusionment of battle, but also the wider loss of innocence the Great War brought about.

By the time of his writing, a way of life had ended, and England and the modern world would never be the same. In Graves’s portrayal of the dehumanizing misery of the trenches, his grief over lost friends, and the surreal absurdity of government bureaucracy, Graves uses broad comedy to make the most serious points about life and death.

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