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Batlava Lake

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ISBN: 9781913097622
AuthorMars-Jones, Adam
Pub Date23/06/2021
BindingTrade PB
Pages136
CountryGBR
Dewey823.92
Quick overview Exploring masculinity, class and identity, BATLAVA LAKE is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.
€12.72

Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, BATLAVA LAKE is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.

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Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars-Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, BATLAVA LAKE is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.

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