Above Sumatra vividly depicts war's soul-destroying effects on men serving in the strategic backwaters, and how a man fighting his way by night across a storm-wracked ocean finds with the dawn a promise of redemption.
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James Jackson dropped out of the University of British Columbia in 1941 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. He completed a tour of operations in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He returned to UBC and went on to a Master of Fine Arts degree with the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He returned to Canada to teach at the University of Western Ontario, followed by appointments at the Air Force College in Toronto and with the University of Toronto. During his time in Toronto, Baxter Publishing published To the Edge of Morning. His final job was as University Registrar of Carleton University in Ottawa, where he also conducted a seminar in creative writing.
He now lives on Salt Spring Island and continues to write fiction.
Of Above Sumatra, Jackson writes: "This is not in any way my own story. I served with great comrades under brilliant leadership, whereas the novel deals with breakdown and disintegration. But I had talked to men who had gone through long periods of inactivity, and saw that in war there is more than killing that can corrupt the human soul. I knew that using my own experience as background, I could write something about the effects of boredom and lack of purpose, a kind of microcosm or allegory which would in many ways be closer to the reality of war than the more common stories of violence and slaughter."
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