Turvey

Earle Birney

first published 1952 McClelland & Stewart, 1976 288 pages

New Canadian Library

We follow one Thomas Leadbeater Turvey, originally native to (fictional?) Skookum Falls, British Columbia, as he enlists in the Canadian Army and goes through an interminable saga of slow advancements and sudden setbacks on his mission to join his best friend Mac Macgillicuddy in the (fictional?) Kootenay Highlanders as they head to Europe to take on the Nazis. Private Turvey is of the species amiable innocent, and...

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Turvey edition · 2008 · McClelland & Stewart · 385 pages · 9780771093548
Turvey edition · 1989 · McClelland & Stewart · 358 pages
Turvey edition · 1976 · McClelland & Stewart · 288 pages

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