The Blasphemer Robin Jarvis Little but rope holds the

Little but rope holds the disintegrating hull together

a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside

but above all it is a portrait of a man who will never put Vietnam behind him--the war is inside him

As in his stories and some of his later novels

It can't just stop happening

The Blasphemer Robin Jarvis Little but rope holds theOn its way to the Galpagos Islands, a light aircraft ditches into the sea. As the water floods through the cabin, zoologist Daniel Kennedy faces an impossible choice should he save himself, or Nancy, the woman he loves? In a parallel narrative, it is 1917 and Daniel's great grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele. He, too, will have his courage tested, and must live with the moral consequences of his actions. Back in