Harry Parker ANATOMY OF A SOLDIER Signed Hardback
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Harry Parker ANATOMY OF A SOLDIER Signed Hardback
First edition fourth print hardback of ANATOMY OF A SOLDIER by Harry Parker and published by Faber & Faber in 2016. Signed by Parker on the title page. Numberline is: 4 6 8 10 9 7 5.The book is in near fine condition (green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Lets imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, whos leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then theres the man who trains one of them to fight against the others father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable.
But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive.
The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things weve never understood so clearly before.
314 pages including Acknowledgements.
ISBN: 9780571325818
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