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210pp. Paperback, 215 x 138 mm. ISBN 0 9585805 1 0.
RRP $aud 20.95 |
| How can one man stand up against 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 ll, 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 main defence. |
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