The Deserter

By Douglas Lepan

Book Overview

A new edition of the classic novel by Douglas LePan.

Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds -- the ordered but empty everyday life of "schedules and obligations," and the hellish chaos of the city's underside, a dark world of brutality and vice. Gripped with a restless passion for perfection, haunted by a brief and idealized experience of love, the hero of this poetic, experimental novel lives out in a modern context that most universal of myths: the descent into the underworld to experience initiations and ordeals, and the return with new understanding to the upper world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459743261
• ISBN13: 9781459743267
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Golden Dog Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"