Flanders (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Anthony
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Abused persons, Religion, Abandoned children, Mental illness, Fathers, Death or dying, World War I, Soldiers
- Locales: France
As in her six other novels, Patricia Anthony shows a gift for eccentric characters in FLANDERS. The hero is Travis Lee Stanhope, and he comes from a rural family in Texas. He enters Harvard University on a scholarship, loves the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and joins the British Expeditionary Force in World War I. He is also a psychic.
Travis is a rebel, too, and because of this he is accused of rapes and a murder he did not commit at the front in Flanders, Belgium. He does have a violent side and he is often drunk, but the real criminal is his friend in the trenches, Pierre...
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