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From a derelict shed adjoining a lonely road which stretched for miles across the Norfolk fens, a strange shape slid silently into the night mist. It was a motor-car of an unfamiliar design. The body, of gleaming aluminium, was of unusual width, and was lifted high above the delicate chassis and spidery bicycle wheels that seemed almost too fragile to bear the weight of an engine.

Though it was a gay comic opera that was being performed for the first time, entertainers and entertained lost all interest in each other. They were amazed, dismayed, awestricken. Amusement was nauseating; War, with all its attendant horrors, was actually upon them! The popular tenor, one of the idols of the hour, blundered over his lines and sang terribly out of tune, but the hypercritical first-night...

Film na podstawie książki już na platformie Netflix. Bezkompromisowa, brutalna i mroczna proza największego kalibru, która trzyma w emocjonalnym uścisku aż do ostatniej strony. Niektórzy ludzie rodzą się po to, by można ich było pochować. Knockemstiff, Ohio. Willard Russell, dręczony wspomnieniami rzezi na Południowym Pacyfiku weteran wojenny, nie jest w stanie uratować swojej pięknej żony, Charlotte,...