ARMED CAMPS

by Kit Reed ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 3, 1970

Armed. Camps is one of those quasi-polemical projections which depends for its effectiveness to some degree on the subjective alignment of the reader. It takes place in an immediate future where the world is continually gutted by senseless wars and urban violence. Involved is one of the two narrators, Danny March, who has a long lineage of heroes and the more immediate memory of his father-buried in Arlington. On the other hand there's a peaceable kingdom, Cambria, the construct of one Eamon and a reminder of ""a time when everybody lived this well."" Anne, the other narrator, forgetting the message she had known as well as the incident which had erased it (her betrayal of the boy she loved), comes to Cambria where first a riot, and then a murder, and finally armed resistance defeat Eamon's hope of living by faith without force. And restore the lost message of the enemy within. . . .In fictional terms comparisons should not be too hard to find--Kurt Vonnegut or William Eastlake to begin with. Although as in any allegory the faces are featureless, this is carried by Kit Reed's well acknowledged talent-the intelligence which informs and the nerve-end intensity which quickens every book she has written.

Pub Date: June 3, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dutton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION