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Boyle's memorable novel, first published in 1936 and long out of print, and set in the Austrian town of Feldbruck from February to July of 1934, is at once a love story and a chilling political drama. Romance blooms between Prochaska, the resident doctor at the town hospital's ward for infectious diseases, and Pendennis, a young, married American tourist. The attraction between the two is immediate and potent, but as their involvement deepens, Pendennis becomes aware of Prochaska's work for the Nazi party, which many Feldbruck citizens cling to in the hope that it will rescue Austria from economic depression. The lovers' clash is as emphatic as their affinity; as spring wears on, Pendennis's antipathy grows, until she declares to Prochaska that "you take your orders, you swallow it all down along with your pride and your sense or whathaveyou! One day they're going to put a pretty little uniform on you . . . and say, 'Now you run along to war, dear,' and won't that be a lot of fun?" The collapse of the affair seems as inevitable as the tragic, impending war. The novel is reprinted here with an introduction in which Burton Hatlen of the University of Maine elucidates why Boyle's sympathetic view of Prochaska does not signify support of fascism, and with a brief, illuminating afterword by Boyle.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Boyle's memorable novel, first published in 1936 and long out of print, and set in the Austrian town of Feldbruck from February to July of 1934, is at once a love story and a chilling political drama. Romance blooms between Prochaska, the resident doctor at the town hospital's ward for infectious diseases, and Pendennis, a young, married American tourist. The attraction between the two is immediate and potent, but as their involvement deepens, Pendennis becomes aware of Prochaska's work for the Nazi party, which many Feldbruck citizens cling to in the hope that it will rescue Austria from economic depression. The lovers' clash is as emphatic as their affinity; as spring wears on, Pendennis's antipathy grows, until she declares to Prochaska that "you take your orders, you swallow it all down along with your pride and your sense or whathaveyou! One day they're going to put a pretty little uniform on you . . . and say, 'Now you run along to war, dear,' and won't that be a lot of fun?" The collapse of the affair seems as inevitable as the tragic, impending war. The novel is reprinted here with an introduction in which Burton Hatlen of the University of Maine elucidates why Boyle's sympathetic view of Prochaska does not signify support of fascism, and with a brief, illuminating afterword by Boyle.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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IF it is Sunday the shops are shuttered and closed for the day and the doctor from the town hospital is that dark and hot-eyed young man moving quickly and singly along the solemn sabbatical streets, alone among the coupled others, his mountain boots and mountain corduroys on and his rucksack on his shoulders, seemingly without the time as well as the inclination to fix the women or the men in his bold nervous glance but going towards the country outside, his destination secret from them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sister Marianna, Sister Resi, Herr Doktor, Herr Gott, Muti Praxlmann, Sister Francisca, Sisters of the Order, Aunt Kat, Fati Praxlmann, Sister Atheline, Good God, Grüss Gott, Herr Praxlmann, Sister of the Order, Josef Bitter New!
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IF it is Sunday the shops are shuttered and closed for the day and the doctor from the town hospital is that dark and hot-eyed young man moving quickly and singly along the solemn sabbatical streets, alone among the coupled others, his mountain boots and mountain corduroys on and his rucksack on his shoulders, seemingly without the time as well as the inclination to fix the women or the men in his bold nervous glance but going towards the country outside, his destination secret from them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sister Marianna, Sister Resi, Herr Doktor, Herr Gott, Muti Praxlmann, Sister Francisca, Sisters of the Order, Aunt Kat, Fati Praxlmann, Sister Atheline, Good God, Grüss Gott, Herr Praxlmann, Sister of the Order, Josef Bitter New!
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