A Soldier Erect
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st american ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good; spine slightly faded. Binding - tight. Clean copy.
A darkly comic and unflinching work of literary fiction, A Soldier Erect chronicles the wartime experiences of Harry Stubbs, a young British soldier serving in the jungles of Burma and India during World War II. The second installment in Brian W. Aldiss's semi-autobiographical Horatio Stubbs trilogy, the novel presents the raw, unglamorous reality of military life — boredom, camaraderie, lust, and survival — with a candor that is both irreverent and deeply human. Aldiss illustrates how war strips men down to their most primal instincts, balancing bawdy humor with moments of genuine pathos and psychological insight. The narrative captures the absurdity and moral ambiguity of conflict without resorting to heroic myth-making, cementing Aldiss's reputation as a writer unafraid to portray life in all its messy, contradictory truth.
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st american ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good; spine slightly faded. Binding - tight. Clean copy.
A darkly comic and unflinching work of literary fiction, A Soldier Erect chronicles the wartime experiences of Harry Stubbs, a young British soldier serving in the jungles of Burma and India during World War II. The second installment in Brian W. Aldiss's semi-autobiographical Horatio Stubbs trilogy, the novel presents the raw, unglamorous reality of military life — boredom, camaraderie, lust, and survival — with a candor that is both irreverent and deeply human. Aldiss illustrates how war strips men down to their most primal instincts, balancing bawdy humor with moments of genuine pathos and psychological insight. The narrative captures the absurdity and moral ambiguity of conflict without resorting to heroic myth-making, cementing Aldiss's reputation as a writer unafraid to portray life in all its messy, contradictory truth.