Add this copy of Standing Orders to cart. $1.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Penguin Publishing Group.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
Add this copy of Standing Orders to cart. $3.31, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by The Viking Press.
Add this copy of Standing Orders to cart. $3.59, very good condition, Sold by Richard J. Walters rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Yaphank, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Viking.
Add this copy of Standing Orders: a Novel to cart. $6.95, very good condition, Sold by Clausen Books, RMABA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Colorado Springs, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Viking.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ (in mylar) jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. White-out over name on top corner of ffep, otherwise textblock and binding are clean and tight. Unclipped dust jacket with flaps taped to binding. 384pp.
Add this copy of Standing Orders to cart. $8.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Viking Press.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1987. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670813397. 284 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Melissa Jacoby. Jacket painting, Soldiers (An Australian War Memorial), by Sydney Nolan. keywords: Oceania New Zealand Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-There are two standing orders in my life, God's and the Army's. Both bolt me together. These two moral imperatives dictate the life and destiny of young David Andersen as he battles the obscene and in-human horrors of the Korean War and the consuming passions of an illicit love, in this haunting new novel by John Hooker. In Korea, where it seemed that the ice never melted and spring was gone forever, the young Australian subaltern learns that battle, like his childhood, is a solitary business; he struggles to earn the respect of his men and to maintain a sense of decency and self-respect amid the chaos, terror, and bloodshed of combat in a foreign land, against a seemingly invincible and ghost-like enemy. Death rules and killing is routine; this David learns by necessity, but he prays for forgiveness for the murders that are part of soldiery and retreats into the calming confines of spiritual isolation. His solitude is broken by his unlikely friendship with a young English officer, Tom Fleetwood. Together they fight in one of the Korean War's harshest battles, and they are captured in its aftermath; united, they face imprisonment, interrogation by the enigmatic North Korean Major Kim, a punishing, dramatic escape across the blasted countryside of war, and eventual reunion with the Americans and freedom. What of fear and courage, evil and morality Andersen learned in battle at the enemy's hands, he shares with only one other upon his return to his family's home in Victoria. His love for Elinor Bryant, a neighbor's wife, the discovery of his own nature and the opposed forces at work within him-inherited and wrought of his own experience-bring about the climax of a novel that is moving and rich in its evocation of human passion, of landscape and destiny, of character and conflict. Standing Orders is a brilliant successor to John Hooker's last novel, The Bush Soldiers. inventory #8156.
Add this copy of Standing Orders to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Viking.
Add this copy of Standing Orders to cart. $26.06, very good condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1986 by Collins Harvill.
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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Collins Harvill, 1986. First edition. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(tear, some creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark on the outer edges, two small nicks and creases on the edges of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. Price un-clipped.384pp.
Add this copy of Standing Orders to cart. $29.70, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1986 by Collins Harvill.
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F- in F- jacket. Signed by Author. F-/F-. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a trifle marked, some paperstock tanning) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed, barely perceptible touch of sunning to spine); pp. 384. A near fine copy. Inscribed to prev. owner on FFE by the author, John Hooker, Port Fairy 1994.
