Turvey

Private Thomas Leadbeater Turvey is nobody’s idea of a capable recruit. Shifted from regimental pillar to post, Turvey tries and fails at every odd job in the army with a remarkable genius for mishap.

A casualty before he has a chance to see action, Turvey watches the maimed and dying return from the front; thus Earle Birney’s comic masterpiece becomes an unforgettable indictment of war.

Turvey won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1949.

From the Hardcover edition.

• Author
• Earle Birney, Al Purdy

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 360

• Publisher
• New Canadian Library

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780771099533

• Genres
• fiction, canada, humor

• Release date
• 1989