Not So Quiet . . .

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Military, Literary
Cover of the book Not So Quiet . . . by Helen Zenna Smith, Jane Marcus, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Author: Helen Zenna Smith, Jane Marcus ISBN: 9781558616325
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Publication: January 1, 1993
Imprint: The Feminist Press at CUNY Language: English
Author: Helen Zenna Smith, Jane Marcus
ISBN: 9781558616325
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Publication: January 1, 1993
Imprint: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Language: English

“[A] bittersweet feminist antiwar novel . . . Brilliantly written, and cleverly mixing humor with bitterness” (Library Journal).

Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its “furious, indignant power” and winner of the Prix Severigne in France as “the novel most calculated to promote international peace,” this story offers a rare, funny, bitter, and undeniably feminist look at war and its effects on all those who take part.

First published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet . . . follows 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”—even as their parents swell with pride that their girls aren’t shirking their duty to king and country.

Taking the guise of an autobiography by Smith—a pseudonym for Evadne Price—Not So Quiet . . . is a compelling counterpoint to Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western**Front. The novel’s power comes from Smith’s outrage at the senselessness of war, her own daily contact with the suffering and the wounded, and at her country’s complacent patriotism and willingness to sacrifice its children.

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“[A] bittersweet feminist antiwar novel . . . Brilliantly written, and cleverly mixing humor with bitterness” (Library Journal).

Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its “furious, indignant power” and winner of the Prix Severigne in France as “the novel most calculated to promote international peace,” this story offers a rare, funny, bitter, and undeniably feminist look at war and its effects on all those who take part.

First published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet . . . follows 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”—even as their parents swell with pride that their girls aren’t shirking their duty to king and country.

Taking the guise of an autobiography by Smith—a pseudonym for Evadne Price—Not So Quiet . . . is a compelling counterpoint to Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western**Front. The novel’s power comes from Smith’s outrage at the senselessness of war, her own daily contact with the suffering and the wounded, and at her country’s complacent patriotism and willingness to sacrifice its children.

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