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The Farther Shore (Hardcover)
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The Farther Shore (Hardcover)
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List price R616
Loot Price R518
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You Save R98 (16%)
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"Short, sharp, devastating, The Farther Shore is a literary machine
gun . . . a winning debut that happens to be a war novel." --Kansas
City Star A small unit of soldiers from the US Army is separated
from their command and left for dead. Their only option is to keep
moving, in hope that they'll escape the marauding gangs and
clansmen who appear to rule the city. Josh, a young soldier, and
his "battle buddies" are left to wander in this hostile territory.
A series of nightmarish, often violent encounters leaves only a few
of them alive. The Farther Shore is a short, stark war novel in
which the characters are both haunting and inhuman, natives and
invaders alike. The emerging story reflects a new kind of military
engagement, with all the attendant horrors and difficulties of
fighting in a strange new postmodern battlefield. In his
unforgettable debut novel, Matthew Eck puts readers inside the mind
of a confused young soldier caught in the fog of unexpected
warfare. "Bold, profane, hallucinatory." --Seattle
Post-Intelligencer "Haunting . . . goes beyond the on-the-ground
chaos of battle to capture the physical and psychological
disorientation of modern war." --Publishers Weekly "Every word in
Eck's first novel is as solid as a stone. Every moment of crisis
feels authentic in its terror and tragedy; indeed, Eck served as a
soldier in Somalia at age eighteen. Heir to Hemingway, and damn
near as powerful as Cormac McCarthy in The Road, Eck has created a
contemporary version of The Red Badge of Courage in this tale of
one young man's trial by fire in the pandemonium of war in an age
of high-tech weaponry and low-grade morality." --Booklist (starred
review) "The first great war novel of our generation." --Salon
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