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- Paperback Edition
- ISBN: 978-0-935312-82-9
- Publication Date: 02-01-1989
- Page Count: 304
- Categories: Fiction
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HELEN ZENNA SMITH is the pseudonym of Evadne Price (1896 - 1985), who wrote several more novels about the character Smith.
Not So Quiet . . .
Afterword by Jane Marcus
Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its “furious, indignant power,” this story offers a rare, funny, bitter, and feminist look at war. First published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet... (on the Western Front) describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War I, surviving shell fire, cold, and their punishing commandant, "Mrs. Bitch." The novel takes the guise of an autobiography by Smith, pseudonym for Evadne Price. The novel's power comes from Smith's outrage at the senselessness of war, at her country's complacent patriotism, and her own daily contact with the suffering and the wounded.
"A powerful condemnation of war and the societies that glamorize it."
"This intriguing book . . . vividly and impressionistically tells of the author's tour of duty in France. . . . One welcomes its return to print."
"The reader of Not So Quiet . . . today is immediately gripped by its furious, indignant power."
