An autobiographical novel of the Great War's aftermath, Plumes is the story of the personal trials of a soldier, returned from the front disabled and disillusioned, and of the wife and child he left behind. Like his creator, Laurence Stallings, Richard Plume is a U.S. Marine whose combat injuries ultimately cost him a leg and much faith in his government and society. Carefully structured to emphasize the immediacy of problems faced by its players, the novel relegates combat scenes to flashbacks and centers instead on the struggles Richard faces as he tries to carve out a humble but honest existence in postwar Washington, D.C., for his wife, Esme, and son, Dickie. As he struggles to understand the external and internal causes that made him a victim, he turns to his heritage. Patriotic Plumes men fought in every American conflict from Valley Forge onward, and while all returned with wounds and woes, none ever doubted that battlefield glory was worth the price-none until Richard, who yearns to spare Dickie from the fate of his forebears.
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"As fine a novel of the war as has been written." -- Time
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"As fine a novel of the war as has been written."--Time
"An intensely interesting story. . . . No one, not even the most convinced of patrioteers, could read so straightforward and unvarnished a tale as Plumes without being just a little shaken by the truths which it reveals."--The Nation
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THE PLUMES have been in this country two hundred and fifty years, and not one of them was ever worth so much as $25,000. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
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