A Handful Of Rice Hardcover Book
Cover is in overall good condition with general surface, corner and edge wear; the dust jacket has minor tears. Tight binding. Pages are all intact and have no markings or writing. Former owner left an impression (almost like a pressed stamp) on the inside cover. The back cover seems slightly bent. Pages have yellowed.
Author: William Allister
Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Printing Date: 1961
Condition: Very Good
"In a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp somewhere in Malaya a group of prisoners mainly Canadian, are struggling to stay alive. A rice increase is promised them in exchange for their labour on a nearby airfield. But the ration officer, Captain Welland, uses his position to pirate the rice and feed his fellow officers, leaving the men to work on starvation rations. Lt. Turner, is skillfully ensnared by Welland who, swollen in his powers, becomes collaborator and little dictator. Hunger, punishments, deaths increase. Resentment builds to an intense crescendo. We are plunged into this vortex of gathering violence with the reluctant leader, Blacky Valois, a sombre French Canadian miner. Beside him are the scarred, fear-ridden Tony Welles and the cheerful, caustic Joe Weinberg who fought together in the shambles of Hong Kong. We live with their agonies, joys, laughter and horrors. We watch men stripped of their civilized outer vestments, standing naked for all to see. We follow the transformation of Turner, Welles and Valois, probing with them for deeper truths than those that have let them down. How they find them in the heart of the final, volcanic mutiny is the main strand of Mr. Allister's passionate, horrifying and moving story."
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