When Blackbirds Sing: Text Classics

Author(s): Martin Boyd

Fiction

At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences in the trenches changes him forever; his return home sees him cast off his past and find his own integrity. He has seen the true nature of war-the senseless waste of life, the millions of young men condemned to pointless slaughter-and has emerged a wiser, but troubled, man. When Blackbirds Sing is a masterful recreation of the vanished world of 1914, and a moving and powerful testament to the devastation of war. In this final instalment of Martin Boyd's celebrated Langton Quartet, Boyd confirms his reputation as one of the most outstanding novelists Australia has ever produced.

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* Extract from Chris Wallace-Crabbe's introduction to be placed in Australian Book Review or similar literary magazine * Review coverage in major broadsheet papers to coincide with 100th anniversary of the beginning of WWI * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR and the Monthly * Advertisements in bookseller newsletters * Banner advertising on bookseller websites * Banner advertising on Text website

General Fields

  • : 9781922147998
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing
  • : 0.17
  • : July 2014
  • : July 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Martin Boyd
  • : Martin Boyd
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 823.914