Drinkers Of Darkness
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the sweltering isolation of a remote East African outpost, a small community of British colonial officers and settlers slowly unravels under the twin pressures of heat and despair — Gerald Hanley's Drinkers of Darkness is a masterwork of psychological tension set against the vast, indifferent backdrop of the African continent. The novel chronicles the moral and spiritual disintegration of men far from home, bound together by duty yet corroded by loneliness, drink, and the suffocating monotony of colonial life. Hanley, who drew deeply from his own wartime experiences in Africa and Burma, brings an unflinching and compassionate eye to the human capacity for self-destruction. His prose is spare yet luminous, capturing both the brutal beauty of the African landscape and the quiet devastation of men unmoored from purpose. A profound meditation on empire, identity, and the darkness that resides within, this novel leaves the reader asking what, exactly, it is that we are all drinking from.
Author: Gerald Hanley
Format: Paperback
Published: 1958, Penguin Books
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the sweltering isolation of a remote East African outpost, a small community of British colonial officers and settlers slowly unravels under the twin pressures of heat and despair — Gerald Hanley's Drinkers of Darkness is a masterwork of psychological tension set against the vast, indifferent backdrop of the African continent. The novel chronicles the moral and spiritual disintegration of men far from home, bound together by duty yet corroded by loneliness, drink, and the suffocating monotony of colonial life. Hanley, who drew deeply from his own wartime experiences in Africa and Burma, brings an unflinching and compassionate eye to the human capacity for self-destruction. His prose is spare yet luminous, capturing both the brutal beauty of the African landscape and the quiet devastation of men unmoored from purpose. A profound meditation on empire, identity, and the darkness that resides within, this novel leaves the reader asking what, exactly, it is that we are all drinking from.