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Purple Hearts

Name: Purple Hearts
Author: C.W. Smith

Auteur: C.W. Smith

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: C.W. Smith C.W. Smith

Engels
Hardcover
9780875653624
02 april 2008
427 pagina's

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To make ends meet Sylvia takes on a boarder in her husband Georgie Karacek's absence. When Georgie's epilepsy comes to light, he is discharged from the army. He suspects that his bride and the boarder are lovers. But wartime conditions explode into rioting, and that uproar puts them at odds with the town when Georgie helps a black friend flee.

Set during the turmoil of World War II, ""Purple Hearts"" is the story of the epileptic scion of an East Texas timber and oil fortune and his marriage to a stunning stranger desperate for sanctuary. Though naive and virginal, thirty-year-old Georgie Karacek wins Sylvia through his charm and kindness. Longing to prove himself, he then hides his illness to join the army. Sylvia's relationship with Georgie's overprotective mother proves difficult, so to make ends meet she takes on a boarder, Robert, in Georgie's absence. Soon Robert and Sylvia grow close, and he presses her to run away with him.When Georgie's epilepsy comes to light, he is discharged, and on returning home he suspects that his bride and the boarder are lovers. But wartime conditions explode into rioting, and that uproar puts them at odds with the town when Georgie helps a black friend flee.""Purple Hearts"" is based loosely on events in Beaumont, Texas, in July of 1943, when shipyard workers rampaged following a rumor that a black man had raped a sailor's wife. Several people died and scores were injured, and that riot echoed those in Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Writer/critic Bryan Woolley has hailed ""Purple Hearts"" as 'the best novel I've read about the home front during World War II...[it] illumines the dark fact that there was more to that home scene than ""Rosie the Riveter"" and ""War Bond"" drives.'

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 april 2008
Aantal pagina's: 427
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: C.W. Smith
Tweede Auteur: C.W. Smith
Hoofduitgeverij: Texas A & M Univ Pr

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Editie: illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 161 mm
Product hoogte: 34 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 862 g

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EAN: 9780875653624

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Taal: Engels
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