![]() ![]() She said the novel was “inappropriate to be presented to a class of young people,” worried about the book’s effect on the minds of students and asked the board to review the novel. She especially objected to a character’s visit to a whorehouse and depictions of a homosexual gang rape. Objection - Speaking on behalf of a small delegation of parents, the parent objected to depictions of sex and violence in the novel. The novel won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 1977.Ģ011- The parent of an Ontario high school student complained to the Bluewater District School Board about the use of this novel in Grade 12 English literature classes. ![]() In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare, of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - The War to End All Wars. ![]()
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