The Purple Plain
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140011528
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
1977
Publisher
Pages
240
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Abstract
Assailed by beat, thirst and plain, three men set off on the long trek towards safety:
Carrington, the young navigator; Blore, flabby and frightened; and Forrester, embittered and poisoned by his young wife’s death in the Blitz.
Forrester, who has begun to find salvation and love with the inhabitants of mission community, takes the lead but Carrington can’t walk; and Blore disappear
‘ it haunts you, alike for the queer and mounting suspense and for the masterly portraits of the three men’- Sunday times
‘One of the most exciting and perfectly executed pieces of fiction that I have read’ - Spectator
Carrington, the young navigator; Blore, flabby and frightened; and Forrester, embittered and poisoned by his young wife’s death in the Blitz.
Forrester, who has begun to find salvation and love with the inhabitants of mission community, takes the lead but Carrington can’t walk; and Blore disappear
‘ it haunts you, alike for the queer and mounting suspense and for the masterly portraits of the three men’- Sunday times
‘One of the most exciting and perfectly executed pieces of fiction that I have read’ - Spectator
Description
A wartime novel set in the central plain of Burma towards the end of the Second World War, where a depleted RAF squadron of Mosquitoes is based. - from Amzon
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1
