Rules For Old Men Waiting
Author(s): Peter Pouncey
A small masterpiece with a vast canvas - three major wars of the twentieth century, no less - and a strong emotional charge, this is a taut, moving novel about old men, young men and war, about memory and imagination and the gap between.Old man Maclver, military historian and one-time centre for Scotland's rugby team ('quite quick in his day
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Winner of McKitterick Prize 2006.
Born in China of British parents, educated at Oxford, Peter Pouncey is a classicist and academic who moved to the US in the 1960s and is now President Emeritus of Amherst College. This is his first novel.
General Fields
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- : Chatto & Windus
- : 0.353
- : 01 April 2005
- : 220mm X mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Peter Pouncey
- : Hardback
- : 813.6
- : 192
