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In the author note to the 1999 edition of Highways to a War, Koch describes the two novels as a dyptich entitled Beware of the Past, the first line of a poem by James McAuley used as an epigraph to the later novel.
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Highways to a War
New York (City)
:
Viking
,
1995
Z456830
1995
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
Ray Barton travels to war-ravaged Southeast Asia to search for his missing friend Michael Langford, a brilliant, risk-taking combat photographer who was stolen into Khmer Rouge Cambodia on a mysterious mission and disappeared. The search illuminates Langford’s heroism, his fierce loyalties, and the personal highways he has traveled to war. Langford’s empathy for the brave but poorly commanded Cambodian troops and his love for a young Cambodian woman have led him in the end to put down the camera and take up the gun in a foreign struggle he had made his own.
Koch richly evokes Indochina—from the deceptively tranquil rice paddies of South Vietnam to the corrupt, doomed pink-and-white city of Phnom Penh. Highways to a War is a story of intense relationships forged in a dangerous and hallucinatory land that continues to haunt the American soul.
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Out of Ireland
Sydney
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Doubleday
,
1999
Z513277
1999
single work
novel
'A leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Robert Devereaux is an Irish gentleman who is prepared to hazard a life of privilege in the fight for his country's freedom. transported to Van Diemen's land as a political prisoner, he enters a life that greatly changes him, falling in love with a young Irish convict woman. Through Kathleen O'Rahilly he comes to know the people he's long romanticised; but his cause, and the life he has lost, will not let him go.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins 2013 ed.)
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Ancestral Narratives: Irish-Australian Identities in History and Fiction
Saarbrucken
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VDM Verlag
,
2008-2009
Z1664583
2008-2009
single work
criticism
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Ancestral Narratives: Irish-Australian Identities in History and Fiction
Saarbrucken
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VDM Verlag
,
2008-2009
Z1664583
2008-2009
single work
criticism
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