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    God's Sparrows
    God's Sparrows
    God's Sparrows
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    God's Sparrows

    By Philip Child and James R. Calhoun

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    A new edition of Philip Child’s great Canadian novel of the First World War.

    A horrifying description of war, specifically embodied in the vain and inglorious futility of the First World War, God’s Sparrows is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its faith in the human spirit. Philip Child created a Canadian family saga, a modern pilgrim’s progress in which individuals surmount the corrosive effects of brutality, maintaining their ability to love and endure under the most agonizing circumstances. His book, first published in 1937, remains as a stirring testimony to that ability. It offers profound insight into the experience of the First World War, not just as a catastrophe affecting his characters but as a crucible in which the whole of this nation found itself tried.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateMar 4, 2017
    ISBN9781459736443
    God's Sparrows
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    Philip Child

    Philip Child is the author of five novels, one collection of shorter poems, and one book-length narrative poem. He won the 1949 Governor General’s Award for Mr. Ames Against Time. A veteran of the First World War, he taught for many years at the University of Toronto.

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