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The Deserter

Douglas LePan author Michael Gnarowski editor Scott Rayter editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dundurn Group Ltd

Published:25th Apr '19

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A new edition of the classic novel by Douglas LePan.

Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds — the ordered but empty everyday life of “schedules and obligations,” and the hellish chaos of the city’s underside, a dark world of brutality and vice. Gripped with a restless passion for perfection, haunted by a brief and idealized experience of love, the hero of this poetic, experimental novel lives out in a modern context that most universal of myths: the descent into the underworld to experience initiations and ordeals, and the return with new understanding to the upper world.

  • Winner of Governor General's Award for Fiction 1964 (Canada)

ISBN: 9781459743267

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm

Weight: 361g

352 pages