The Rebels Contributor(s): Marai, Sandor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375707417 ISBN-13: 9780375707414 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sandor Marai," The Rebels" is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life--and possibly death--during World War I. It is the summer of 1918, and four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, who are off fighting at the front. The boys know they will very soon be sent to join their elders, and in their final weeks of freedom they begin acting out their frustrations and fears in a series of subversive games and petty thefts. But when they attract the attention of a stranger in town--an actor with a traveling theater company--their games, and their lives, begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted and cannot control, and one that reveals them to be strangers to one another. Resisting and defying adulthood, they find themselves still subject to its baffling power even in their attempted rebellion. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2008274627 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.54" W x 7.94" (0.46 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer S ndor M rai, The Rebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life--and possibly death--during World War I.It is the summer of 1918, and four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, who are off fighting at the front. The boys know they will very soon be sent to join their elders, and in their final weeks of freedom they begin acting out their frustrations and fears in a series of subversive games and petty thefts. But when they attract the attention of a stranger in town--an actor with a traveling theater company--their games, and their lives, begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted and cannot control, and one that reveals them to be strangers to one another. Resisting and defying adulthood, they find themselves still subject to its baffling power even in their attempted rebellion. |