Long March - Softcover

Styron, William

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ISBN 10: 055324194X ISBN 13: 9780553241945

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1983

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Culver has been called off the Korean War reserve list to take part in manoeuvres in South Carolina. Templeton orders his men to endure a 36 mile march to get them into combat shape, and Culver sees his friend Mannix involved in a battle of wills that reveals the cruelty and stupidity of war.

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

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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

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