The Old Army Game: A Novel and Stories

by George Garrett

Book Overview

This volume pairs Garrett's novel Which Ones Are the Enemy? with nine other stories of military life, including two previously uncollected works, Crowfoot and Heroes. Which Ones Are the Enemy? (first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870743805
• ISBN13: 9780870743801
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Fine Garrett

Not too long ago I read an article about Trieste and its literary associations in one of the glossy travel magazines. The usual suspects were mentioned: Joyce, Svevo, Saba, Jan Morris. But Garrett was omitted. And I think the omission was an injustice--one of many that have been done Garrett--because his short novel "Which Ones Are the Enemy?" recounts the adventures of a young American soldier who is part of the forces occupying the limestone plateau above Trieste and along the "Jug" border. Garrett always tells a good story, but in this book he also recreates a largely forgotten occupation. Whatever, a fine novel, a fine evocation of Trieste and of youth. The other stories, some of them also set in Italy, are also excellent. I wish I had the book and could read it again.