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Bonk on the Head
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ISBN10: 0889712042
ISBN13: 9780889712041
Publisher: Nightwood Ed
Published: Jun 24 2005
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780889712041
Publisher: Nightwood Ed
Published: Jun 24 2005
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Winner of the 2006 Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction
Bonk on the Head is the fictional account of a young man's strange and gruelling journey through military indoctrination, and the strange and gruelling family life that drives him to it. Author John-James Ford, himself a graduate of Royal Military College, presents a spirited coming-of-age novel that is at once both gripping and hilarious. The unforgettable Verbal Kempt, boy-man, flits between deranged assaults on the senses and sensory deprivation, between memory and amnesia, to define and redefine his own understanding of freedom and personality. His dilemmas take the form of private wars inside and outside the skull--embroiling family, institutions, landscape and language.
Bonk on the Head is the fictional account of a young man's strange and gruelling journey through military indoctrination, and the strange and gruelling family life that drives him to it. Author John-James Ford, himself a graduate of Royal Military College, presents a spirited coming-of-age novel that is at once both gripping and hilarious. The unforgettable Verbal Kempt, boy-man, flits between deranged assaults on the senses and sensory deprivation, between memory and amnesia, to define and redefine his own understanding of freedom and personality. His dilemmas take the form of private wars inside and outside the skull--embroiling family, institutions, landscape and language.
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