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Item Details
Title:
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LANCEWOOD
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By: |
Alan Marshall |
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Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0958580510 |
ISBN 13: |
9780958580519 |
Publisher: |
INDRA PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1999 |
Pages: |
210 |
Synopsis: |
How can one man stand up against the will of his own people and refuse to fight in a war he doesn't believe in? What sort of courage does it take to refuse to become one more brave soldier going off to war? Or is Gerry's anti-war attitude just a selfish desire to continue his comfortable life with his girl-friend, his leftist poetry-readings and his botanical research? Set in New Zealand and Italy during World War II, this novel portrays the anxieties and dilemma for a man who is conscripted to fight in a war he doesn't believe in. And when he is conscripted, Gerry Cook realises he is not heroic enough to refuse the call-up. Gerry's resolution of his dilemma is as clear as it is shocking. The intensely local setting of Lancewood portrays a very ordinary man and woman confronting universal questions of duty and love, honour and freedom. In Alan Marshall's first novel, he provides a perspective on war, in which rebellion against authority is the individual's only defence. |
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Australia |
Imprint: |
Indra Publishing |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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