What it Takes to be Human
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What it Takes to be Human by Marilyn Bowering
The day after World War I is declared in Canada, Sandy Grey's father, a fundamentalist preacher, won't give him permission to fight. When Sandy's attempt to oppose his father and his upbringing turns violent, he is incarcerated in an asylum for the criminally insane. There he meets Karl, a German; Winchell, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War; Bob, a homosexual who is singled out for favours by a brutal asylum attendant; along with Russians, Chinese and a few hated Japanese. Unsure how to convince his doctor that he is sane, or of how he fits into the world within a world that is the asylum, Sandy is determined to uncover an historical miscarriage of justice in the hope that it will, by analogy, prove his innocence. What It Takes To Be Human exposes the acute parallels between those who are incarcerated and those whose lives are being torn apart by distant conflict.
Marilyn Bowering is an award-winning Canadian novelist, poet and playwright. Her second novel, Visible Worlds (1997), was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize, and nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It was praised by the Independent as a tour de force ... a wonderful piece of storytelling and by the New York Times Book Review as a vast, sprawling feast of a book. She lives in British Columbia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904559269 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904559263 |
| Title | What it Takes to be Human |
| Author | Marilyn Bowering |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Arcadia Books |
| Year published | 2007-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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