Sentences with phrase «turn deserter»

All the major characters remain, and the central question of the novel — should Billy stay in the army or turn deserter, as his sister implores — is the same.

Not exact matches

Well, when he had to join the army, just after World War II, they managed to turn him into two people; so he was bashing away at infantry training at a camp in Northern Ireland when two sea - sick military policemen showed up and arrested him for being a deserter from a different camp in the south of England, where his other self was supposed to be bashing away.

New works in film, slide projection and sculpture evoke the early Genet — the orphan, thief, prisoner, army deserter, vagabond and prostitute who turned brutal experience into sexually fevered poetry.