![]() ![]() Unable to share the convictions of his patriot soldier brother, Sam, or his nominally pro-Tory parents, Tim finds that his loyalty to his family leads him into contradictory, even dangerous, confrontations - over Sam's theft of his father's gun, a messenger job that turns out to be a Tory spying assignment, and protecting his family's small herd of cattle from hungry armies on both sides. What differs here is Tim's experience of war as an irrational, destructive force in which he can find neither a meaningful allegiance nor a standard of justice, however partisan. ![]() Tim is an unexceptional observer with whom we can readily identify and his placid hometown, Redding, Connecticut - drawn accidentally into the whirlwind of the American Revolution - is the sort of authentic locale that makes us feel immediately comfortable in the genre. ![]() In many ways Tim Meeker follows the traditional pattern of a young boy caught up in a great historic upheaval. ![]()
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