BOOK: The good liar by Maguire

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Maguire, Gregory._The good liar_,1999 [0-395-90697-0] Clarion
Maria's class is studying World War II and have to contact people
who lived through it.  By luck she ends up writing to a man who
grew up as a young boy in France during that period.  The bulk of
the book is a long letter (supposedly written on a word processor)
describing growing up in occupied France.  The book gives an feel
of how a child must have felt and thought about the whole thing.
The characters are real, from both the two Jews they hid in their
house for a while, to the German soldier the boys secretly
befriended.  The three brothers in the story were known throughout
their village as excellent liars but the title refers to someone else
who was ultimately a better one. Although entirely fiction, this 129
page book left me feeling that I knew someone who actually grew
up in that terrible time.

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