
Description
This satirical fantasy memoir re-examines the nature of history and warfare through the eyes of Wat Dryhope, a soldier in a matriarchal twenty-third-century kingdom. Wat's personal narrative, presented as a fictionalized historical document, challenges the regulated, game-like nature of conflict when a woman named Delilah Puddock enters the military arena. The story uses border warfare and eroticism to question societal structures, sexism, and the very act of recording history.
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- November 1994
- 192
- About 4 hours
- Novel
- Adult
- Canongate Books
- English
- 9781847677020
- Standalone




