The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0330422510
- ISBN-13
- 9780330422512
- Category
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
- Pages
- 302
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Picador Australia
- Author
- Delia Falconer
Description
This publication includes the novel, The lost thoughts of soldiers, together with a selection of stories. The novel tells of Captain Frederick Benteen, a soldier in Custer's Seventh Cavalry, who looks back on his life and thinks about our urge to go to war and the price we pay. The stories, set among the 'water poets' of Bath, Hadrian's Rome, and in the postwar light of Los Angeles, explore the secret desires of men and women.
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