The Amazing Interlude

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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If duty called, would you leave the confines of your cushy life to dedicate yourself to the service of the greater good? That's what Sara Lee, the altruistic heroine of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Amazing Interlude, decides to do amidst the terror and tumult of World War I. Based on the author's own experiences as one of the first prominent female war correspondents, this novel provides a fascinating glimpse into the horror of war—and a heartening look at the miracle of human kindness and show more connection.

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Touched by stories from the front, Sara Lee Kennedy leaves her fiancé in Pennsylvania, and travels to Europe to do her part ("I can make soup"). Aided by sheer pluck and a handsome young Belgian secret service agent, she runs a soup kitchen behind the trenches until recalled by her desolate fiancé, who is no longer the man she remembered...

A romantic and dramatic tale of WWI Europe before the United States joined the Allied effort. Not exactly Rinehart's usual fare — if you're mainly a fan of her mysteries, this may not appeal — but well-crafted nonetheless.
A good love story with the backdrop of World War 1.Though I wished the ending which was conventional had been different
A tearjerker towards the end. The many instances of the author addressing the reader to say that later the heroine would find something out got on my nerves.
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In WWI an American girl travels to the front in Belgium, where she learns the meaning of love, life, and sacrifice.
Dnf. The description of this book given by the LibriVox edition was rather misleading. I found that the reviews by other Goodreaders gave me a more accurate description. After reading some of these I decided that this book was not in my scope of interest.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in the City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1876. While attending Allegheny High School, she received $1 each for three short stories from a Pittsburgh newspaper. After receiving inspiration from a town doctor who happened to be a woman, she developed a curiosity for medicine. She went on to study nursing at show more the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital. After graduating in 1896, she began her writing career. The first of her many mystery stories, The Circular Staircase (1908), established her as a leading writer of the genre; Rinehart and Avery Hopwood successfully dramatized the novel as The Bat (1920). Her other mystery novels include The Man in Lower Ten (1909), The Case of Jennie Brice (1914), The Red Lamp (1925), The Door (1930), The Yellow Room (1945), and The Swimming Pool (1952). Stories about Tish, a self-reliant spinster, first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and were collected into The Best of Tish (1955). She wrote more than 50 books, eight plays, hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Three of her plays were running on Broadway at one time. During World War I, she was the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front. She died September 22, 1958 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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1918
First words
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us buy one setting.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And God knows, wherever I am, I shall have need of you.

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Mystery, Romance
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PZ3 .R47 .ALanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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