An edition of The last year of the war (1978)

The last year of the war

Rev. ed.

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An edition of The last year of the war (1978)

The last year of the war

Rev. ed.

From the back cover of the 1979 paperback edition:

In this haunting novel, a young
student at a midwestern Bible college
ascends from the dark night of her
soul into the light of God's love. The
time is 1944; World War II is the
external symbol of her inner struggle.
No reader will be unmoved by this
powerful and original contribution to
Christian literature.

"Born again" in a conversion experience while in high school in Massachusetts, Jo Fuller leaves her scoffing family and the intolerable memory of her brother's fresh death in World War II for the Calvary Bible Institute in Chicago. In dormitory, classroom, and dining hall, all assembled are more or less earnestly studying for the pastorate, the music ministry, or missionary work. Jo meets up with Clyde McQuade, a discharged veteran who starts bird-dogging the girl immediately but to whom Jo is hardly attracted; what's of note about Clyde is his zealousness (he irons out discarded tracts) and determinism ("I'm no hotshot, and neither are you. Whether we like it or not, He has given us to each other for this purpose, to be partners in faith") -- and his near-psychopathic feeling that his spiritual progress is connected with how well the war goes in Europe. Jo falls in and out of crushes with other boys, but Clyde is always there, like a reproach. Jo's doubt begins to grow: Is her faith simply a need for security? Is God her substitute for her dead brother, whom she deeply offended by her belief before his death? Nelson's best stroke in this first novel (winner of the Harper-Saxton Fellowship) is how well she humanizes the religious experience. The core is doubt, and doubts stick to people. A quiet, authoritative style, a trained eye (when a gravelly-voice teacher starts to speak, many of the students unconsciously clear their own throats), and a deep, probably autobiographical commitment to her subject make something completely convincing out of Nelson's very personal, contemplative, and "unsexy" raw material. - Kirkus Review.

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Publisher
Northcote Books
Language
English
Pages
249

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Cover of: The Last Year of the War
The Last Year of the War
October 2004, Wipf & Stock Publishers
Paperback in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: Last Year of the War
Last Year of the War
2004, Wipf & Stock Publishers
in English
Cover of: Last Year of the War
Last Year of the War
2004, Wipf & Stock Publishers
in English
Cover of: The last year of the war
The last year of the war
1989, Northcote Books
in English - Rev. ed.
Cover of: Last Year of the War
Last Year of the War: A Novel
1979, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: The last year of the war
The last year of the war
1978, Harper & Row
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
Wheaton, Ill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3564.E476 L37 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
249 p. ;
Number of pages
249

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2212532M
Internet Archive
lastyearofwar0000nels
ISBN 10
0877884846
LCCN
89035349
OCLC/WorldCat
19922668
Library Thing
1090276
Goodreads
2149364

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