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A tree on fire.
LIBRA - Special PR6037.I55 T74 1968
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sillitoe, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutionaries--Fiction.
- Revolutionaries.
- History.
- Algeria.
- British--Africa--Fiction.
- British.
- Africa.
- Algeria--History--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Political fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 451 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First ed in U.S.A.].
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1968 [©1967]
- Summary:
- The strange odyssey of an Essex working man who exchanges England for Algeria. Frank Dawley is obsessed with revolt and revolutionaries so, abandoning his wife and infant son, he crosses the Mediterranean into the nightmare terrain of Algeria where a colonial army and a national guerrilla force are in a fierce fight.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sillitoe, Alan. Tree on fire.
- OCLC:
- 442599
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