Scooter Chronicles

This past Sunday I finally finished reading “A Soldier of the Great War” by Mark Helprin.

For a synopsis, I am using Barbara Hoffert’s review from 1991 that appeared in Library Journal:

In summer 1964, a distinguished-looking gentleman in his seventies dismounts on principle from a streetcar that was to carry him from Rome to a distant village, instead accompanying on foot a boy denied a fare. As they walk, he tells the boy the story of his life. A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alesandro Giuliani found his charmed...

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