The WarsClarke, Irwin, 1977 - 226 pages In 1915, Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists in the army as an officer. His experiences of life in a training camp, of the trenches in Europe, and with death, are vividly told. Some strong language amd explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1977 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 1977. |
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... sitting so near the street , and she refused . - Mrs Ross adjusted her veil but did not put the flask away . " I was afraid I was going to scream , " she said . She gestured back at the church with its sermon in progress . “ I do not ...
... sitting so near the street , and she refused . - Mrs Ross adjusted her veil but did not put the flask away . " I was afraid I was going to scream , " she said . She gestured back at the church with its sermon in progress . “ I do not ...
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... sitting on the stairs in the black hole of Calcutta . Everything's gone wrong . Michael's gone and Clive is leaving . I'm in love with Robert Ross but he hardly ever wants to sit and talk the way he did before he went away to have his ...
... sitting on the stairs in the black hole of Calcutta . Everything's gone wrong . Michael's gone and Clive is leaving . I'm in love with Robert Ross but he hardly ever wants to sit and talk the way he did before he went away to have his ...
Page 184
... sitting in the ballroom all alone and the doors were open to the garden and Barbara had or- dered pots and pots of freesia from the greenhouse for tomorrow ( she must have been giving a party ) , and they were sitting on the floor in ...
... sitting in the ballroom all alone and the doors were open to the garden and Barbara had or- dered pots and pots of freesia from the greenhouse for tomorrow ( she must have been giving a party ) , and they were sitting on the floor in ...
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