The Deserter

Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds.

About the author

Douglas LePan was a veteran of the Second World War, a distinguished diplomat, and the principal of University College, University of Toronto. He won Governor General's Awards for poetry for his collection The Net and the Sword (1953) and for fiction for his only novel, The Deserter (1964). He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998.

Scott Rayter is an assistant professor, teaching stream, in the Department of English and the Sexual Diversity Studies program at the University of Toronto. He is the co-author of Queer CanLit: Canadian LGBT Literature in English and the co-editor of Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies. He lives in Toronto.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Lepan
• Assisted by: Michael Gnarowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781459743267
• ISBN: 978-1-4597-4326-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 213 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Voyageur Classics; Voyageur Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature