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A new edition of the classic novel by Douglas LePan.

Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds the ordered but empty everyday life of schedules and obligations, and the hellish chaos of the city's underside, a dark world of brutality and vice. Gripped with a restless passion for perfection, haunted by a brief and idealized experience of love, the hero of this poetic, experimental novel lives out in a modern context that most universal of myths: the descent into the underworld to experience initiations and ordeals, and the return with new understanding to the upper world.

The Deserter

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    A Paperback by Douglas LePan, Scott Rayter, Michael Gnarowski

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      Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/25/2019 12:04:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781459743267, 978-1459743267
      ISBN10: 1459743261

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A new edition of the classic novel by Douglas LePan.

      Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds the ordered but empty everyday life of schedules and obligations, and the hellish chaos of the city's underside, a dark world of brutality and vice. Gripped with a restless passion for perfection, haunted by a brief and idealized experience of love, the hero of this poetic, experimental novel lives out in a modern context that most universal of myths: the descent into the underworld to experience initiations and ordeals, and the return with new understanding to the upper world.

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