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The Razor's edge

Larry Darrell, haunted by the horrors of the war, abandons his easy life for an odyssey that takes him from the WW I trenches to Paris, to a monastery in Tibet.

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  • "Larry Darrell, haunted by the horrors of the war, abandons his easy life for an odyssey that takes him from the WW I trenches to Paris, to a monastery in Tibet."@en
  • "Larry Darrell, haunted by the horrors of the war, abandons his easy life and glowing prospects for an odyssey that takes him from the trenches of World War I to the Paris of Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, then on to a monastery in the Tibetan mountains."
  • "Larry Darrell, haunted by the horrors of the war, abandons his easy life and glowing prospects for an odyssey that takes him from the trenches of World War I to the Paris of Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, then on to a monastery in the Tibetan mountains."@en
  • "Larry Darrell returns from World War I disillusioned with the Jazz Age values. He undertakes a quest in search of enlightenment which leads him to reject his fiancée and his superficial lifestyle."@en
  • "Larry Darrell returns from World War I disillusioned with the Jazz Age values. He undertakes a quest in search of enlightenment which leads him to reject his fiancee, and his superficial lifestyle."@en
  • ""The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous - most of all for those who lived the war first-hand. Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the protagonist is a character named Larry. Battered physically and spiritually by the war, Larry's physical wounds heal, but his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel. He studies philosophy and religion in Paris. He lives as a monk. He witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring '20s. Maugham's theme is the contrast of spiritual content between Larry and the growing materialism and sophistication of those he left behind - and the surprising irony of where both of those paths lead." -- Container."
  • "Battered physically and spiritually by the war, Larry's physical wounds heal, but his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition."
  • "Feeling disillusioned and depressed after World War I, Larry Darrell doesn't feel able to rejoin the mainstream of American life. He goes on a personal quest to seek the answers to questions that plague him. What is the best way to live? What constitutes a good life? From Illinois to Paris to India, Darrell - and everyone around him - try to find what it is they should be looking for."
  • "The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous, most of all for those who lived the war first-hand. Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the protagonist is a character named Larry. Battered physically and spiritually by the war, Larry's physical wounds heal, but his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel. He studies philosophy and religion in Paris. He lives as a monk. He witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find, from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine, becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring '20's."@en
  • "Leaving wealth and loved ones behind, Larry Darrell journeys to the mountains of India in search of spiritual wisdom."
  • "The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous - most of all for those who lived the war first-hand. Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the protagonist is a character named Larry. Battered physically and spiritually by the war, Larry's physical wounds heal, but his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel. He studies philosophy and religion in Paris. He lives as a monk. He witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life. All of life that he can find - from an Indian Ashrama to labor in a coal mine - becomes Larry's spiritual experiment as he spurns the comfort and privilege of the Roaring '20s. Maugham's theme is the contrast of spiritual content between Larry and the growing materialism and sophistication of those he left behind - and the surprising irony of where both of those paths lead." -- Container."
  • "[In this novel, the author] tells the story of Larry Darrell, an attractive and enigmatic American who forsakes the comforts of bourgeois society to live a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth and meaning. Larry's former fiancee is the beautiful and vivacious Isabel Maturin, who is struggling to maintain a family nearly destroyed by the Depression. He is also attracted to the lost, wanton Sophie Macdonald whose life he attempts to save from its downward spiral. In the midst of the drama stands Elliott Templeton, the irresistibly lovable arch-snob with a heart of gold ... -Back cover."
  • "The story of a young man in search of himself, set in Paris, the Riviera and Asia."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
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  • "The Razor's edge"@en
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  • "The Razor's Edge"
  • "The razor's edge"
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