Sole Survivor: A Novel One is Red O'Hara, traumatized by horrific wartime experiences working on the Burma railway as a P. Rosie's sudden appearance panics Red and Angus.W.THE CHARACTERSthree loners --
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| Title | : | Sole Survivor: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (130 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684854074 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1999-03-10 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : "Red O'Hara woke at first light convinced that he should be dead and ashamed that he wasn't." The year is 1966 and on Great Barrier Island 55 miles off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, Red O'Hara leads a solitary life. A former World War II POW, Red was hospitalized for a time upon his return and took to heart his doctors' advice to set objectives: "One day Red had surprised them by obliging. He wrote a single word in large childish letters and taped the sheet of paper to the wall above his bed. 'Survive,' was all it said." But even 20 years after the end of the war, he carries his guilt and his terror close; only an unvarying routine of work and exercise stands between him and his hellish memories of the Japanese camps in Burma. On the island, O'Hara has but two neighbors: the elderly Scottish misanthrope Angus McCleod and Bernie, a dying alcoholic. Life is isolated, simple, and predictable. When Bernie dies, however, he leaves his shack to Rosie Tretheway, a disillusioned
THE PLACE
a remote, sparsely inhabited Pacific island.THE CHARACTERS
three loners -- two men and a young woman -- who share a life of isolation and loneliness and are eventually forced to come to terms with themselves, one another, and the encroaching world.
When Rosie Trethewey -- disillusioned doctor turned market researcher -- unexpectedly inherits a shack on the remote northern tip of New Zealand's Great Barrier Island, she decides it's time to begin a new life. She arrives at her new home to find she has two neighbors sharing the wilderness. One is Red O'Hara, traumatized by horrific wartime experiences working on the Burma railway as a P.O.W. of the Japanese. The other is Angus McLeod, a retired policeman, who has fled from a society he sees as soft and contemptible. Both are, in different ways, survivors. Rosie's sudden appearance panics Red and Angus. Both of them fear she will disrupt their neatly ordered lives. And they're right. Tou
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