Forever 33 / (Record no. 5841)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 771018096
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Transcribing agency NULRC
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Classification number FIC .B94 1982
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Personal name Byfield, Jacques.
Relator term author
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Title Forever 33 /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jacques Byfield
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Toronto, Canada :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The Canadian Publishers,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c1982
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Extent 175 pages ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
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Summary, etc. Forever 33, the title of Jacques By-field's first novel, comes from a war song, "A soldier knows that he will die, and buried deep he'll be. The digger may live to ninety-nine, but he'll stay thirty-three." The digger is the grave-digger and the "he" who'll stay thirty-three is the dead soldier, assuming that he was thirty-three when he died. In this novel the digger and the soldier are one and the same person. The time is 1938; the setting a town of 500 close to the U.S. border in the Badlands of Alberta. The digger comes mysteriously and stays until he is certain there will be a second European war. He has lost his leg in the First World War, and before the second breaks out, he has returned to his British homeland to take part in it. Between these two events we get to know a great deal about the townspeople and almost nothing about our hero, John Evans, except that the townspeople come to view him as uncannily prescient. There is a dollop of condescension here as if our British-born novelist sees remittance men essentially romantically.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element CANADIAN FICTION
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Books - Fiction
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    Library of Congress Classification     Fiction LRC - Annex National University - Manila Fiction 02/10/2012 Reaccessioned   FIC .B94 1982 NULIB000003600 05/20/2025 c.1 05/20/2025 Books - Fiction