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001			ocn913305016
003			OCoLC
005			20180722222032.0
008			150817s2016 cau 000 1 eng
010			_a 2015031017
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDXCP _dBTCTA _dBDX _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dGO6 _dIH9 _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dON3 _dNFG
020			_a9781619026124 _q(hardback)
020			_a1619026120 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)913305016
042			_apcc
043			_afn-----
092			_aAllison, _bRobert
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aAllison, Robert _c(War story writer) _9294546
245	1	4	_aThe letter bearer : _ba novel / _cRobert Allison.
263			_a1602
264		1	_aBerkeley, CA : _bCounterpoint Press, _c[2016]
264		4	_c�2015
300			_a262 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying dying in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his mailbag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two. In the midst of profound trauma, terrible warfare, and the nameless experience of desertion, this gripping story asks us to consider how men build hope when they have nothing left not even a name. When first published last year in London, Robert Allison's debut novel was met with wide praise and was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize, described by one of its judges as "'An excellent and elegant novel written with patience and authority" Readers of Michael Ondaatje and Paul Bowles will find the landscape familiar, but the no reader will ever forget the haunting and haunted story of this remarkable victim."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAmnesia _vFiction. _948343
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zAfrica, North _vFiction. _9294547
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd _9683
655		7	_aWar stories. _2gsafd _95166
994			_aC0 _bNFG
942	0	0	_05
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