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The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressive Edwardian [1] society. Drawn into the madness of war, Ross commits "a last desperate act to declare ...
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley (October 30, 1930 – June 20, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright. [1] He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy , an acronym of his initials.
Not Wanted on the Voyage is a novel by Canadian author Timothy Findley, [1] which presents a magic realist post-modern re-telling of the Great Flood in the biblical Book of Genesis. It was first published by Viking Canada in the autumn of 1984, [ 2 ] and was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at ...
First edition (UK) The Last of the Crazy People is the first novel of Canadian author Timothy Findley.It was published in 1967, in Britain, and later on in Canada, and was one of the first novels ever to be labelled as Southern Ontario Gothic.
At the war's height, half a million U.S. troops were in Vietnam; the number in Afghanistan reached 100,000 for about a two-year period, but mostly remained far lower.
"There are no real winners here, but right now, Blake and Ryan are losing the image war," Alexandra LaManna, a communications advisor and former White House spokesperson, told Fox News Digital.
The Wars is a Canadian historical drama, directed by Robin Phillips and released in 1983. [1] An adaptation of the Governor General's Award-winning novel The Wars by Timothy Findley, the film centres on Robert Ross (Brent Carver), the immature and closeted gay son of an upper class Rosedale family who enlists to serve in the Canadian Army during World War I. [2]
"Stones" tells the story of a man who volunteered for WWII, and while he had been much loved by his family before the war, when he returns home afterward he is no longer the same person, quick to violence and vulgar tones, a stark contrast to the way he had behaved before. It turns out that at the raid of Dieppe in WWII, upon seeing the ...