num_pages: 360
description: 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.
language: English
title: Turvey
titlecomplete: Turvey
genres: Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Humor
ratings_count: 38
awards: awardedAt: -631123200000
name: Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal
publisher: New Canadian Library