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The Good Heart
The Good Heart is a story of faith-filled resiliance amid horrendous destruction and incalculable hardship as experienced by Canadian infantry in the First World War, and the reconstruction of humanity at its conclusion.
By the author of Starvation Cove.
$19.95
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The Good Heart is a story of faith-filled resiliance amid horrendous destruction and incalculable hardship as experienced by Canadian infantry in the First World War, and the reconstruction of humanity at its conclusion.
By the author of Starvation Cove.
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Ben Galeski’s second novel. “The Good Heart”, tells the story of young Joseph Benson who leaves his ranch home and family in Alberta to enlist with the Canadian Expeditionary Force to fight in World War I.
In the trenches in France, Joseph and his comrades are exposed to the horrors of one of the ugliest, most brutal wars ever fought. Through it all he has only his faith and his inner strength of character to sustain him.
Galeski’s prose style and command of language are both rock solid. He handles the often difficult device of flashback masterfully to segue back and forth between the joys of family life at home and the gruesome reality of life in the trenches, thus underlining the sea change that young recruits like Joseph went through. He pulls no punches in his descriptions of the dark side of war and a young soldier’s life in a foreign land far from home. The reader is settled in the time and place of WWI in France with the authority that comes of meticulous research.
Ben Galeski is a fine writer who has told a profoundly human story in “The Good Heart”. When I read his work I find myself constantly wishing for more.