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Words of My Roaring

Ernest J Finney

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  • 380 sidor
  • 1998
Set in a small town south of San Francisco during World War II, Words of My Roaring is a compelling picture of the confusions, the dislocations, and the brutality of war as they affect the home front. The novel recreates a neighborhood in San Bruno and connects it to San Francisco and the larger stage of the war. Tanforan racetrack, first an assembly camp for Japanese Americans awaiting internment, becomes a naval training base for Pacific-bound recruits. The elementary school becomes a USO, and air-raid drills and blackouts are routine as California prepares for an expected Japanese invasion. We see these events through the eyes of a novice teacher, an abandoned boy, two young girls whose mother works in the shipyards and whose father enlists in the Army, and a sailor scarred by his months in the war zone. Words of My Roaring is a richly textured, emotionally charged novel about the unlikely sources of human redemption.
  • Författare: Ernest J Finney
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780520216389
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 380
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1998-10-01
  • Förlag: University of California Press