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_aStyron, William, _d1925-2006 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe long march |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_March_(novel) | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-01 | ||
| 508 | _aTim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) | ||
| 520 | _a"The long march" by William Styron is a novella written in the mid-20th century. It follows Marine reservists at a Carolina training base in the early 1950s after a deadly training accident, focusing on Lieutenant Culver, his embittered friend Captain Mannix, and their exacting commander, Colonel Templeton. The story probes fear, aging, and the pull of authority as a punishing overnight march becomes a test of bodies, loyalties, and pride. The opening follows Culver witnessing the graphic aftermath of two misfired mortar rounds that kill eight men and wound many more, then flashing back to his reluctant recall from a settled New York life to a disorienting camp routine. Through Culver’s eyes we meet Templeton—cool, theatrical, and devoutly Marine—and Mannix, a scarred veteran whose cynicism erupts in lectures, at the officers’ club, and in memories of past peril. Templeton orders a thirty-six-mile forced march to “shape up” the battalion; Mannix responds with fierce resolve to make his company finish, despite a nail in his boot and rising pain. The narrative tracks the start of the march: a brutal pace in sand, thirst, silence broken by Mannix’s bullying cadence, brief breathers on the roadside, and Culver’s mounting panic and fatigue. Mannix’s mood swings between grief (after viewing a boy’s shattered body) and harsh command as he goads his men and wrestles with his own wound. The section closes with the march underway, Mannix hurting, and Templeton hovering—calm, implacable—as the night’s ordeal deepens. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aWar stories | ||
| 653 | _aKorean War, 1950-1953 -- United States -- Fiction | ||
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