Father War
English
By (author): Thomas Doherty
A long-forgotten jungle campaign takes on new life in the troubled mind of John Spenser, a missing soldiers 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.
Its not every day that I read a story about a man on the run with his recently deceased wifes ashes on the shotgun seat of a rental car, but Tom Dohertys 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 Tribunes Heartland Prize. See more
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.
Its not every day that I read a story about a man on the run with his recently deceased wifes ashes on the shotgun seat of a rental car, but Tom Dohertys 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 Tribunes Heartland Prize. See more
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