COUNT A LONELY CADENCE

by Gordon Weavet ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 15, 1968

Most of the disorderly to brutal proceedings here take place in an Army stockade overseas (Germany) during Pvt, Fairchild Franklin Bean's first year when he is presumably learning to ""shape up and soldier"" under the heel of a Purple Heart winning Sergeant...What he's really learning is how to live with himself, although he hasn't had too much of a headstart: an unruly high school record which earns him early admissions in the Army; the death of his father--a postman; a drunken night out and a tattooing session which sends him to the stockade (mutilation); alignment with other prisoners, all Negroes, so that when one of them is killed by hardshelled McKinney, the black-white affiliation becomes a prime level in his testimony. . . . A sincere and stringeal first novel, all in basic PX prose and a rough experience for all concerned.

Pub Date: April 15, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Regnery

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1968

Categories: FICTION