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Hepworth, John

 
9781922147820: The Long Green Shore (Text Classics)
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ISBN 10: 1922147826 ISBN 13: 9781922147820
Editorial: The Text Publishing Company, 2014

Sinopsis

In sublime prose, this gripping account follows Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II. An intimate and moving war story in the vein of All Quiet on the Western Front. Introduced by award-winning New Zealand author Lloyd Jones.

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"There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them.""Publishers Weekly"
The beauty of John Hepworth s The Long Green Shore is its utter simplicity, no flashes, no frills, no artsy attempts at innovation but, rather, the steady hand of a frighteningly skilled writercertainly one of the great Australian war novelsAustralians fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II constituted only a tiny corner of the worldwide cataclysm. Yet the characters in John Hepworth s novel take on symbolic magnitude of the entire destruction. Charles Larson, "Counterpunch""
-There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them.---Publishers Weekly
'The beauty of John Hepworth's The Long Green Shore is its utter simplicity, no flashes, no frills, no artsy attempts at innovation but, rather, the steady hand of a frighteningly skilled writer...certainly one of the great Australian war novels...Australians fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II constituted only a tiny corner of the worldwide cataclysm. Yet the characters in John Hepworth's novel take on symbolic magnitude of the entire destruction.'--Charles Larson, Counterpunch
"There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them."--Publishers Weekly

'The beauty of John Hepworth's The Long Green Shore is its utter simplicity, no flashes, no frills, no artsy attempts at innovation but, rather, the steady hand of a frighteningly skilled writer...certainly one of the great Australian war novels...Australians fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II constituted only a tiny corner of the worldwide cataclysm. Yet the characters in John Hepworth's novel take on symbolic magnitude of the entire destruction.'--Charles Larson, Counterpunch

Reseña del editor

In sublime prose, this gripping account follows Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese in New Guinea at the end of World War II. An intimate and moving war story in the vein ofAll Quiet on the Western Front. Introduced by award-winning New Zealand author Lloyd Jones.

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Editorial
The Text Publishing Company
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1922147826
ISBN 13 
9781922147820
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
196
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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