As Towns With Fire
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First American Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket is slightly chipped and worn around edges, only large tear on the back of jacket - otherwise fine. Pages clear and crisp.
Witness the internal disintegration of a man caught between his poetic soul and the brutal machinery of war. Christopher MacMannan is a struggling Irish writer living in London as the shadow of World War II lengthens. A man of deep sensitivities and fierce independence, MacMannan finds himself trapped in a visceral conflict: he loathes the fascist threat, yet his conscience revolts against the mechanical slaughter of modern combat. As the Blitz turns London into a landscape of fire and rubble, the tension reaches a breaking point. MacMannan is eventually drawn into the Royal Air Force as a navigator, where the abstract horrors of war become a terrifying, nightly reality. Balancing his love for his wife, Molly, with the haunting guilt of his role in the destruction, MacMannan’s journey is a harrowing exploration of whether a man can survive a war without losing his humanity. Anthony C. West delivers a lyrical, high-tension masterpiece that captures the claustrophobic fear of the cockpit and the moral agony of a "pacifist" forced to kill.
Author: Anthony C. West
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Alfred A. Knopf
Edition: First American Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket is slightly chipped and worn around edges, only large tear on the back of jacket - otherwise fine. Pages clear and crisp.
Witness the internal disintegration of a man caught between his poetic soul and the brutal machinery of war. Christopher MacMannan is a struggling Irish writer living in London as the shadow of World War II lengthens. A man of deep sensitivities and fierce independence, MacMannan finds himself trapped in a visceral conflict: he loathes the fascist threat, yet his conscience revolts against the mechanical slaughter of modern combat. As the Blitz turns London into a landscape of fire and rubble, the tension reaches a breaking point. MacMannan is eventually drawn into the Royal Air Force as a navigator, where the abstract horrors of war become a terrifying, nightly reality. Balancing his love for his wife, Molly, with the haunting guilt of his role in the destruction, MacMannan’s journey is a harrowing exploration of whether a man can survive a war without losing his humanity. Anthony C. West delivers a lyrical, high-tension masterpiece that captures the claustrophobic fear of the cockpit and the moral agony of a "pacifist" forced to kill.