The way they articulated “the puzzling thrill” of both the fun times and the bad times. The Australianness of the banter between mates.
As Lloyd writes in his Introduction “Between moments of barbarity and banality are occasions of great beauty, and for much of the time The Long Green Shore is young solders paean to the puzzling thrill of being alive.” I got that while reading the book. Long pages of fairly meaningless banter between the major two characters and the end just seemed ridiculous.Įventually The Long Green Shore was published not long after the authors death in 1995 to much acclaim and deservedly so in my opinion. I read The Naked and The Dead for the first and only time in 2015 and could not work out the praise. Jones states that Norman Mailer persisted with The Naked and The Dead and as they say the rest is history. Lloyd Jones writes in the introduction that he won an award in a literary competition in 1949 but was later rejected by one publisher so he put the manuscript away and got on with his life. Author John Hepworth wrote this novel after he returned from a stint in Papua New Guinea towards the end of World War 2.
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