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The Great World: A novel (Vintage International)

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The Great World: A novel (Vintage International)
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The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For both men, war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead, it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful reality which lies behind a nation's myth of itself.
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â€œThe rare serious novel that doesn't condescend to its characters, this book has a limpidity and an elliptical sense of time that save it from becoming a blockbuster-style epicâ€”despite having some of that form's easy pleasuresâ€”and render it poetic.â€â€”The New Yorker
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber unknown
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1993-09-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679748366

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