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Turvey (New Canadian Library)

by Earle Birney

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Info:	New Canadian Library (1989), Mass Market Paperback, 360 pages
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1949

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In memory of Garnett Sedgewick who taught me better and for The Einar Neilsons without whom it would have been much worse [from original ed.]

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Private Turvey reporting, and would the gentlemen kindly remember he's just a Body, and so are all the other joes,

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Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody’s idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a remarkable genius for mishap.

A casualty before he has a chance to see action, Turvey watches the maimed and dying return from the front; thus Earle Birney’s comic masterpiece becomes an unforgettable indictment of war.

Turvey won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1949.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400)

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