The Typist: A Novel, by Michael Knight
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The Typist: A Novel, by Michael Knight
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Written with the stunning economy of language for which Michael Knight's work has always been praised, The Typist is a rich and powerful work of historical fiction that expertly chronicles both the politics of the Pacific theater of World War II and the personal relationships borne from the tragedies of warfare.
When Francis "Van" Vancleave joins the army in 1944, he expects his term of service to pass uneventfully. His singular talent - typing 95 words per minute - keeps him off the battlefield and in General MacArthur's busy Tokyo headquarters, where his days are filled with paperwork in triplicate and letters of dictation.
But little does Van know that the first year of the occupation will prove far more volatile for him than for the US Army. When he's bunked with a troubled combat veteran cum black marketer and recruited to babysit MacArthur's eight-year-old son, Van is suddenly tangled in the complex - and risky - personal lives of his compatriots. As he brushes shoulders with panpan girls and Communists on the streets of Tokyo, Van struggles to uphold his convictions in the face of unexpected conflict - especially the startling news from his war bride, a revelation that threatens Van with a kind of war wound he never anticipated.
The Typist: A Novel, by Michael Knight- Amazon Sales Rank: #166667 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 259 minutes
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Stunningly beautiful prose By Wavelet Michael Knight is a master of the short story, which is always my absolute favorite thing to read. Able to balance a kind of luxuriant economy while retaining the genre's essential mystery, Knight writes stories seemingly effortlessly: perfect pacing, compelling point of view, and gorgeous details/images. While I might always prefer his short stories, The Typist marks an expansion of his skills. In an original move, he displaces his prototypical Southern male character to postwar/post-bomb Japan. The country is invoked gorgeously. "Little America" - the few square miles spared from bombings around Tokyo's finacial district - flares and then burns steadily on the page. The reader is never bombarded by informations, historical or otherwise. Knight employs just enough details to summon up a culture and place: "Just after Kyoto it started snowing, flakes darting like schools of fish outside the windows." A lovely read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Gem of a Novel By David Hebb This is a gem of a novel, small and finely cut, and well worth looking at. The author has largely succeeded in re-creating a time and place - a U.S. Army HQ in post-WW2 Japan - unknown to him. I found the setting and the characters both interesting and believable, having served in the Army HQ in Seoul in post-war Korea, a not too dissimilar experience at least in terms of setting from that in the novel. There is a degree of passivity in the main character, as some reviewers have noted, but I did not find this off-putting or disturbing, and think it accords with one of the main points being made by the author, namely that the character of the young man is being formed as the story develops, and the way in which the world impinges upon him is a major element in giving his character and direction in life its particular shape and trajectory.Most gems contain slight flaws and there is one flaw, I think, in this novel that is worth mentioning, and that is race. The sensibility of the age is the most precarious element of the past, and in this novel a sense of race, as it infused American life in the '40s, is hardly present. Race, as far as it is evident at all, is portrayed as we in 21st century might conceive it. However, the main character in the novel is from the deep south, an area not known for racial tolerance in the 1940s, moreover, it should be remembered that the Army segregated in 1945-6, when this story takes place. The Army was very much a racist society at the time, and a boy from Mobile is likely to have imbibed certainly to some degree the vicious racist attitudes of his youthful environment. Even in the 1960s, when I served in the Army, racial tensions were present. Also, college football in the 1940s was also largely a white sport and a segregated one. Though just conceivable, it is not very likely that a black player would be selected for one of the Army teams, I think. Also, in an earlier incident, the main character looks upon and acts in a friendly way toward the Negro soldier, Wall, without race ever raising its head, even in the tones or voices of either character or in their passing thoughts. My sense of the period suggests that race would have intruded, and if there were encounters of the type in the novel, a street meeting and, especially, in dancehall incident, racial attitudes and tension, would have been present, if not openly voiced, at least felt by both men. It may be nice to know how far we have come, but this was not, I think, in the mind of the author when he wrote what is, on the whole, a very fine novel.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Meh By RealGrrl I know I'm going to be considered 'unhelpful' for my mixed review, but here goes. The only good things I can say about this novel is that the simple prose fit the period & character's emotional void & that it showed the diversity of thought in post-war Japan. Overall though the book didn't draw me in, the main character seemed caught up in a situation that truly wasn't interesting. He reminded me of somebody on too much prozac or lithium who is just letting everything happen to him. Perhaps we could say his connection with Arthur McArthur meant something, but his relationships with all the rest of the characters were hollow. Maybe a reflection of the times? Disillusionment with American greatness? It's not a book that I'd ever reread, because nothing of substance can be drawn from it.
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