Yancey's War (Voices of the South)
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Declared the "best novel of the year" by the Cleveland Press when first published in 1966, Yancey's War is the story of ordinary men in an extraordinary off-the-main-track war. Marvin Yancey -- short, fat, over forty, sloppy, sycophantic, cowardly -- is the most unlikely recruit at a Virginia training camp during World War II. He is called a bootlicker and a toady to the army system, which he is, and all the men in his platoon find him disgusting. Yancey's upset of well-planned military maneuvers by overseeing a party that becomes an orgy and by spinning a laundry unit askew are some the novel's funniest moments. In the end, this pocket-size Falstaff finds himself in actual combat across the ocean -- quivering, frightened, jelly-like -- blundering his way to an irritating act of heroism.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807130699
ISBN13:9780807130698
Release Date:January 2005
Publisher:Louisiana State Univ Pr
Length:370 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"
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