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The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica Author:John Calvin Batchelor The author's second novel begins amid the snowy streets of Stockholm in 1973, when two weary American draft dodgers give shelter to an infant they find sleeping inside a telephone booth. It ends more than a half-century later with the dismantling of an outpost on a forlorn island off the coast of Antarctica, a structure built to confine the man ... more »the child has become.
In this book the author has written a stunning lament about the beastliness in man and the violence in nature, about the darkness of hope abandoned and the blood-price of hope regained. The power of his novel is its informed irony for what has been, and its measured fury for what may yet be. It is bewitching work of profound and prophetic vision.« less