| International Standard Book Number |
9781324098058
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| International Standard Book Number |
1324098058
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813.6
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| Personal Name |
Holt, Terry, author.
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| Title Statement |
Soldiers & sailors : a novel / by Terrence Holt.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Soldiers and Sailors
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
416 pages ; 24 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Pursued by a past he cannot bring himself to remember, Hal returns to his decaying Midwestern birthplace, where he takes a job as staff physician at a decrepit veteran's home. There, Hal finds himself the unwilling audience of his patients' horrific stories, and descends with them into a Dantesque vision of the hell of war. Fleeing one hell for another, Hal searches the ruins of his ancestral home for clues to his own family's descent into murder and madness. Between these two worlds, Hal finds a guide in Nell, the wryly attentive receptionist -- who harbors her own secrets about both worlds. The ancient veterans compel Hal to hear what they did and what they suffered, remembering a blood-spattered village in France, or the infernal jungles of New Guinea, the terrors of the Murmansk run or the rail yards of Dachau. Their anguished recollections illuminate this novel like star shells over a darkened battlefield. As the veterans' war stories grow stranger and more terrible, they lead Hal to a terrifying discovery: about his patients, his family, and his collapsing world."-- Book jacket flap.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Physicians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Veterans United States Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fathers and sons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ghosts Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Parent and child Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Psychic trauma Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
War stories Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Ghost stories.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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