The Wars
by Findley, Timothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0773723641
- ISBN 13
- 9780773723641
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Don Mills, ON: Irwin Publishing. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. 0773723641 . Only light wear to price clipped DJ. Remainder mark on top of page edges. ; A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages; A reprint of the 1977 edition. "The year is 1915. Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists as an officer. He is not yet twenty as we follow him from his cloistered home in Toronto across the Atlantic to Ypres and the horrors of the battlefield. He finds himself in a nightmare world of trench warfare, of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performs a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.The Wars is about the war that would end all wars; it is, therefore, the story of all wars. And at its centre is the compassionate portrait of a young man whose smouldering inner conflict bursts into flame as he is swept into the most traumatic war in history. The Wars is an elemental novel with a magnificent feel for its period. It is a dazzling and powerful achievement.When The Wars was first published in 1977, it was greeted with rave reviews and widely praised for its power and intensity. The winner of a Governor General's Award, it immediately entered into the hearts and minds of Canadians of all ages and interests. The Wars is one of our true literary classics, and with this new edition Penguin pays homage to its greatness and to the late Timothy Findley." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16721
- Title
- The Wars
- Author
- Findley, Timothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0773723641
- ISBN 13
- 9780773723641
- Publisher
- Irwin Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Don Mills, ON
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0773723641, Canada Fiction War World 1914 1918, Canada, Ypres, belgium, Alberta, WWI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Canadian;
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Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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