Johnson : Whatever Happened To The Hero Of Man Alone
PARKER Dean
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
NZ$34.99
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Johnson had killed a man in the central North Island, got himself smuggled back to England on a freighter, taken off again, this time to Spain to fight in a war. Then he met Hilary. She was from New Zealand, from Wellington, brimming over with words.
The hero of John Mulgans Man Alone, often regarded as New Zealands first great novel, continues his drift through life, caught up now in the midnight of the twentieth century, fighting in the Spanish Civil War and the disastrous Greek campaign of 1941, in the even more disastrous defence of Crete, then behind enemy lines in the mountains in a war thick with duplicities. Finally he comes back to New Zealand to an industrial war, a solita ...
Publication date: 2017-08
Number of pages: 339
Publisher: Steele Roberts Ltd
Subjects:
Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, NZ Fiction, NZ Historical Fiction, Published in New Zealand
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