David Horsley

Fra bagsiden:
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En britisk brigade bestående af englændere. skotter, indfødte burmesere og krigeriske Gurkhaer forlader Assam for at begive sig på en dristig march gennem det japansk besatte Burma.

Hensigten er at fremkalde forvirring blandt japanerne og forårsage forstyrrelser langt bag fjendens linier.

Og dermed begynder en næsten håbløs kamp mod skånselsløse fjender, de langt overlegne japanske styrker, heden, tørsten, sulten, junglens snigende farer og tropernes uhyggelige sygdomme.
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Here's a writer who enjoys writing. He doesn't have to tell you so in his preface--his columns speak for themselves. That's what makes Horsley such enjoyable reading: we have as much fun with the book as he did.

But what makes this collection of columns so special is Horsley's innate ability to do what all writers try to do. In writing about the intimate details of a personal and very individual life, with characters so vivid and real one would almost think them fictional, Horsley manages to write about universalities. Sadly, I never got to read the columns on a weekly basis as did many of the readers in the Amarillo area. But I know what their reactions must have been. When his column readers--and now the readers of his book--see into his living room as he plays stay-at-home Dad and throws away soiled underwear, or as we smell the West Texas air and hear a distant train whistle on a midnight dog-walk, we can only nod our head. Even if we've never been to Amarillo, or walked our dogs at midnight, or cleaned up after children, we know what Horsley's saying. He's saying what we would have said if we'd been in that situation. And we appreciate him for it.

With a style that is at once natural and polished, Horsley wrote a fantastic column, one that I--who rarely reads newspapers anymore--would have snatched greedily every week. But the amazing thing is, in a world of fast-paced, attention-deficit-geared snippets that mean little once and nothing twice, Horsley's column works together as a book so well, it could almost be a novel.… (mehr)