Behind the Lines: An anthology of short stories

✍ Scribed by Ian Patrick

• Book ID: 110634233
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 42 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B06Y19MYP9

✦ Synopsis

A young man coming of age as he undergoes basic military training.
Stories drawn from real-world experience, with the anti-hero transforming from awkward teenager to young adult as he tries to outwit those in authority.
These eight short stories are hilarious, serious, whimsical, and entertaining, providing insights into a young man's search for identity and independence within a military system designed for conformity and control.

From the Author
The eight short stories stories in this volume are set in a period twenty to twenty-five years before the first democratic political elections in South Africa.
Those elections, in 1994, took place against a background of joy, trepidation, euphoria and pessimism, as the world waited for a miracle.
Could peace and racial harmony be achieved in a country that had for decades become synonymous with racial strife, prejudice, discrimination, enmity and political fragmentation? .... 
The 'substantial' truth of these stories, then, is intended to reflect various stages in the coming to adulthood of a young white man in apartheid South Africa.
A young man who had so much to learn, and even more to un-learn, as he tried to shed the burden of an apartheid education and learn a little more about the truth of the world around him.