Doherty Thomas
Doherty Thomas - Father War - Paperback
Doherty Thomas - Father War - Paperback
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Description: A long - forgotten jungle campaign takes on new life in the troubled mind of John Spenser a missing soldier's son. Determined to restore the reputation of the scape - goated general who led the campaign Spenser comes across a figure large enough to fill the shoes of his absent father. Out of the distant past that "missing" soldier shows up hoping to heal old wounds a homecoming that does not end well for him his son or the woman he left behind. It's not every day that I read a story about a man on the run with his recently deceased wife's ashes on the shotgun seat of a rental car but Tom Doherty's swift engrossing novel about a guy for whom life has proceeded mostly without complications until he finds himself reckoning with his own damaging history is a page - turner with the feel of an instant classic. - - Susanna Daniel author of the PEN award winning novel Stiltsville. With one master - stroke after another Thomas Doherty paints a picture so engaging and framed with such modest eloquence that Father WAR reads like a compact Americanized WAR AND Peace. Whether writing about jungle combat horse cavalry drills in the 1930s or the denizens of a long - abandoned army training camp Doherty is unflinchingly observant and psychologically at his characters very hearts. - - Eric Larsen author of AN American Memory winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize.
Title: Father War
Author(s): Doherty Thomas
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Barcode: 9781800462724
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/28/2021
Category: War & Combat Fiction
Description: A long - forgotten jungle campaign takes on new life in the troubled mind of John Spenser a missing soldier's son. Determined to restore the reputation of the scape - goated general who led the campaign Spenser comes across a figure large enough to fill the shoes of his absent father. Out of the distant past that "missing" soldier shows up hoping to heal old wounds a homecoming that does not end well for him his son or the woman he left behind. It's not every day that I read a story about a man on the run with his recently deceased wife's ashes on the shotgun seat of a rental car but Tom Doherty's swift engrossing novel about a guy for whom life has proceeded mostly without complications until he finds himself reckoning with his own damaging history is a page - turner with the feel of an instant classic. - - Susanna Daniel author of the PEN award winning novel Stiltsville. With one master - stroke after another Thomas Doherty paints a picture so engaging and framed with such modest eloquence that Father WAR reads like a compact Americanized WAR AND Peace. Whether writing about jungle combat horse cavalry drills in the 1930s or the denizens of a long - abandoned army training camp Doherty is unflinchingly observant and psychologically at his characters very hearts. - - Eric Larsen author of AN American Memory winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize.
Title: Father War
Author(s): Doherty Thomas
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Barcode: 9781800462724
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/28/2021
Category: War & Combat Fiction
