In Seasons in the Kingdom, Tim Norris has created with vivid authenticity an uncompromising world of human struggle and ambition viewed through the compelling relationship between an American GI and a young Korean woman. The extremely insightful and evocative portrayal of their complex relationship is skillfully contrasted with detail evoking the banality of military camp life at a small American military outpost in Korea, 1973-74, and the culture of prostitution surrounding them, merging history and fiction into a memorably poignant love story. Norris does a great job describing the young camptown women, demonstrating with great sympathy that they were people who also had hopes and dreams before being shackled by economic and social bondage. Deceit, betrayal, prostitution, racism, violence, are all intertwined in this absorbing narrative of camptown society. Extraordinarily beautiful and detailed "word paintings" of the land and its people form the background of this drama, rounding out this unforgettable book, which resonates with the experiences of hundreds of thousands of US service men and Koreans.
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These pages below relate directly to duplicating text, in all cases not more than a few lines. A handful of editorial issues have been found.
Page 64
Line 24 through 30 is a repeat of lines 17-23.
Page 109
Lines 25 through 30 repeat the previous six lines.
Page 120
Fourth line from page bottom repeats the previous line.
Page 127
Lines two and three repeat the fifth and sixth lines from the bottom of page 126.
Page 237
Line seven and eight repeat previous two lines.
Page 320
12th and 13th lines from bottom repeated as fragment in following sentence.
Page 368
Line six through sixteen repeat the previous lines.
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