Turvey
a military picaresque
by Earle Birney
We follow one Thomas Leadbeater Turvey, originally native to (fictional?) Skookum Falls, British Columbia, as he enlists in the Canadian Army and goes through an interminable saga of slow advancements and sudden setbacks on his mission to join his best friend Mac Macgillicuddy in the (fictional?) Kootenay Highlanders as they head to Europe to take on the Nazis.
Private Turvey is of the species amiable innocent, and though he goes through an astounding series of mild-to-dire accidents and ailments, he always manages to crawl out from under with a sheepish grin. We are ever on his side, fingers tightly crossed, especially after he does eventually achieve Europe and a reunion with the ultimately ill-fated Mac
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Turvey: a military picaresque
2008, McClelland & Stewart, New Canadian Library
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0771093543 9780771093548
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Turvey: a military picaresque
1976, McClelland & Stewart
in English
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0771014120 9780771014123
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