The Long March - Softcover

Styron, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099573555 ISBN 13: 9780099573555

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2012

Synopsis

In the blaze of a Carolina summer, among the poison ivy and loblolly pines, eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. Deciding that his battalion has been 'doping off', Colonel Templeton calls for a 36-mile forced march to inculcate discipline. The Long March is a searing account of this ferocious ordeal - and of the two officers who resist.

About this title

Book Description:

'There can be no doubt that Styron is the foremost writer of his generation' Wall Street Journal

From the Back Cover:

The Long March has a grandeur that comes from being perfectly direct, yet deeply imaginative about a very simple time...Choicely eloquent at the numberless levels that mark all the greatest writing’ Sunday Times

In The Long March Styron depicts conflicts between men of somewhat more than average intelligence and the military machine. Two marine reservists fight to retain their dignity while on a grueling exercise staged by a posturing colonel.

‘The Long March impresses us not merely as an extraordinarily vivd account of a physical ordeal but as a vehicle discovering and exploring a new them: that of the rebellion of those born into a generation of conformists’ Philip Rahv

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099573555
• ISBN 13: 9780099573555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96