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Read the plot description and tell me I’m not wrong. #MenAtWar
FEW NEW WRITERS have been more widely acclaimed in recent years than the author of The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents and The Scapegoat. His latestbook, however, is quite different from its predecessors, and is his first full-scale novel. Though it possesses most of the characteristics of the realistic novel there hangs over all a pervading sense of myth. Reynard Langrish, a young ex-army man, meets a territorial officer who takes him to a boxing match at his camp, and urges him to join the unit. For some time Langrish is undecided, but later discovers that the camp has completely disappeared-and he can find no proot, despite his visit, that it had ever even existed! Jocelyn Brooke establishes a relationship between the ordinary world and the other world symbolised by the territerial unit which reappears suddenly-and into which Langrish is duly conscripted. Eventually he deserts, though after a number of sometimes terrifying experiences he finally gives himself up. This is probably the author's best book so far: the idea is magnificent and disturbing, the writing superb.
June 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM