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Life
and Times of Captain N
by Douglas Glover
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Paperback book is in new,
never been read condition. No dust jacket, stiff paperback cover. Inside of
book pages are crisp and clean. Pictorial cover. No signs of wear or damage.
Very minor shelf wear on edges of papeback cover. ISBN# 0771033532. 1993
edition. Publisher: McClelland & Stewart. 185 pages long. Size: approx 8.5
by 6 by 1. Additional pictures of condition are always available.
Book Description: In this historical novel set in
the Mohawk Valley of New York State during the Revolutionary War, Native
Americans side with the British against the rebel colonists in skirmishes
that ebb and flow across the rugged countryside. Glover ( The South Will
Rise at Noon ) attempts to tell the story of Capt. Hendrick Ellis, a Tory,
and his recalcitrant son Oskar, who takes a blood oath against his father
for fighting on the wrong side. Oskar, who is eventually kidnapped and
pressed into service for King George, maintains a precocious correspondence
with "Gen'l Washington" and fancies himself a writer. Though this may sound
like an adventure tale out of Fenimore Cooper, Glover's rash of
postmodernist technique yields something closer to the violent pastiches of
William Burroughs. Texts from "Oskar's book on Indians" mix with the dreams
and observations of two mysterious white women (one of whom lives with
Indians) to produce a disorienting and shattered world.
This is not only the life and times of Captain Hendrick Nellis, a British
soldier in New York during the American Revolution, but also the tale of his
son, Oscar, a patriot who yearns to be a hero in the new republic, and Mary
Hunsacker, a German immigrant adopted and named One Who Remembers by the
Indians who massacred her family. From these three viewpoints, Glover ( The
South Will Rise at Noon , Viking, 1989) captures the cruelty of frontier war
and the ambivalence of identity as whites become Indians, patriots become
Tories--and vice versa. Nellis paints his face and fights like an Indian yet
is called the Redeemer for ransoming whites from Indians. Oscar's letters to
General Washington demonstrate the gap between revolutionary ideal and
reality.
A photo gallery of pictures from this book is shown below. Any
questions, please email me at
aldergrove@ppowner.com
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