The Bivouac
Title | The Bivouac PDF eBook |
Author | William Hamilton Maxwell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1837 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN |
The Bivouac
Title | The Bivouac PDF eBook |
Author | R. Compton Noake |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2022-11-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368132350 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
The Bivouac and the Battlefield
Title | The Bivouac and the Battlefield PDF eBook |
Author | George Freeman Noyes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
The Bivouac; Or, Stories of the Peninsular War
Title | The Bivouac; Or, Stories of the Peninsular War PDF eBook |
Author | William Hamilton Maxwell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 884 |
Release | 1837 |
Genre | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
ISBN |
The bivouac: or, Martial lyrist. With an appendix - advice to the soldiers
Title | The bivouac: or, Martial lyrist. With an appendix - advice to the soldiers PDF eBook |
Author | R. Compton Noake |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Bivouac
Title | Bivouac PDF eBook |
Author | Kwame Dawes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781617757105 |
Kwame Dawes has been named a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient in poetry "Few other novels encapsulate Jamaica's political upheavals so well. Protagonist Ferron Morgan agonizes over his father's death, maybe from a doctor's mistake, maybe from a radical rival's hands. Meanwhile, he's running from everything, including his own emotions about his fianc e--with sad results. Bivouac is not an easy or light book, but the immediacy Dawes creates is worth it." --Literary Hub, included in 5 Books You May Have Missed in April "With expressive description and languid cadence, Dawes deftly constructs a background that serves as an amorphous setting for the complicated experience of a grieving son...With subtle yet lyrical description of internal struggles set against a foreign background, Bivouac serves as a deceptively symbolic read about the bleak and mirthless aspects of life and, subsequently, death." --The Daily Nebraskan "An examination of grief and politics in a deftly written novel set in 1980s Jamaica...Astonishing prose." --Kirkus Reviews "With...dreamlike sequences, this is best suited for readers who enjoy character studies as well as lovers of Jamaican fiction." --Booklist "A deftly crafted and absolutely riveting read." --Midwest Book Review "Bivouac has that kind of rich and luxurious writing that makes you believe there is a purpose to every element of the story." --Tonstant Weader Reviews "Dawes examines the complicated terrain of grief with uncanny insight and spare, lucid prose. What unfolds is a story about a man, a family, and a country searching for answers and new hope." --Maaza Mengiste, author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze "Bivouac speaks in tongues so that the reader hears both the market and the courtroom, the orchestra of ancestral voices and the tone of individual conscience. Kwame Dawes's novel laughs and mourns, claps hands for the inventive communal spirit, and wrings those same hands as a result of political malfeasance. I was thrilled to see the writer channel his father's prose and summon pre-independence Jamaica. As readers we should celebrate Bivouac because of its celebration of Jamaica and, by extension, the Caribbean. The novel is replete with generational continuity and loyalty, from father to son, mother to child, the dead and the writer charged with the task of being custodian of their spirits." --Fred D'Aguiar, author of Feeding the Ghosts "Kwame Dawes brings the beauty and subtle rhythms of his poetic voice to this moving, dreamlike novel where the past intercedes on the present. A deep pleasure to read and savor." --Bernardine Evaristo, author of Mr. Loverman When Ferron Morgan's father dies in suspicious circumstances, his trauma is exacerbated by the conflict within his family and among his father's friends over whether the death was the result of medical negligence or if it was a political assassination. Ferron grew up in awe of his father's radical political endeavors, but in later years he watched as the resurgence of the political right in the Caribbean in the 1980s robbed the man of his faith. Ferron's response to the death is further complicated by guilt, particularly over his failure to protect his fianc e from a brutal assault. He begins to investigate the direction of his life with great intensity, in particular his instinct to keep moving on and running from trouble. This is a sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, in which the private grief and trauma condenses a whole society's scarcely understood sense of temporariness and dislocation.
Staff Rides and Regimental Tours
Title | Staff Rides and Regimental Tours PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 530 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Armies |
ISBN |