The Long Green Shore
Text Classics
$16.15
- Paperback
196 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2014
Summary
Everyone was very casual about it—carefully laconic. For the old soldiers it was another move—there had been plenty like this before—they knew what was coming. But the new men could sense the breath of the unknown and mysterious enemy—the shadows of the long green shore—and violence and death they did not know but had often dreamed about.
Written in 1947 but not published until 1995, John Hepworth’s debut novel is a gripping account of Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea at the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922147820 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922147826 |
| Author: | John Hepworth, Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 196 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 151g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
“There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them.”
‘Australia’s All Quiet on the Western Front…The timeless record of a generation of men who had it hard and copped it sweet, and went off into battle not knowing what the day would bring.’ – Bob Ellis
‘This novel is a masterpiece of war fiction.’ * Publishers Weekly *
About The Author
John Hepworth
Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand’s best known contemporary writers. He has published essays and children’s books, but his best known works include the novels The Book of Fame, winner of numerous literary awards, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, Paint Your Wife, HandMe Down World, and the phenomenally successful Mister Pip, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Montana Medal for Fiction, and the Kiriyama Writers’ Prize. Mister Pip was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. He lives in the Wairarapa.
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