Description: This novel on the theme of redemption takes a young sailor through the uttermost hell that body and spirit can endure, and brings him back a whole man. A relentlessly harrowing war novel, The Weight of the Cross is nevertheless an account of how one angry an found peace with himself, with his God, and with his fellows in the purgatory of a Japanese POW camp. It concerns chiefly a withdrawn and bitter engine-room oiler, Tom Daley, who drowned his fury at himself and the world in the dives and gin-mills of Manila; a rebel against authority; a renegade, guilt-ridden Catholic who hated his father and tried to kill his captain; to the Navy, officially a psycho; a misfit, a dead weight on December 7, 1941. Escaping from the hospital, being hunted down in the jungle, captured by the Japanese, living with his guilt, slowly being drawn into the half-starved, half-dead fellowship of the prisoners, feeling his sense of self blurred in the cruelest struggle for survival — this is Tom Daley's penance, and the core of a powerful novel.
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Publication Year: 1953
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: The Weight of the Cross
Author: Robert O. Bowen
Genre: War & Combat
Edition: First Edition
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