The Absolutist
by Boyne, John
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1590515528
- ISBN 13
- 9781590515525
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About This Item
Synopsis
JOHN BOYNE was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of seven novels. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and won two Irish Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the British Book Award and has recently been made into a Miramax feature film. Boyne's novels are published in over 40 languages. He lives in Dublin.
Reviews
The title refers to one who is not just a conscientious objector, but rather one who "...won't do anything at all to further the war effort. Won't fight, won't help those who are fighting, won't work in a hospital or come to the aid of the wounded," according to a sergeant in this novel with World War I as the background. The book's narrator is Tristan Sadler, and the absolutist is his friend/lover Will Bancroft. Will has died in shame as the novel opens, and Tristan seems to be suffering from what would now be designated PTSD. But it is not the horrors that he has witnessed that causes Tristan's trigger finger to quiver uncontrollably. Heroism and honor and their opposites, shame and betrayal, are explored in many varieties in this novel.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3772802-6
- Title
- The Absolutist
- Author
- Boyne, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590515528
- ISBN 13
- 9781590515525
- Publisher
- Other Press, LLC
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- This edition first published
- 2012-07-10
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