Good Night, Irene A Novel

Name: Good Night, Irene
Author: Luis A Urrea

Auteur: Luis A Urrea

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Luis A Urrea

Engels
Paperback
9780316265959
20 juni 2024
432 pagina's

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In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription , an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman's heroic frontline service in the Red Cross

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

This "powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal novel" (Kristin Hannah, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Four Winds), at once "a heart-wrenching wartime drama" (Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT bestselling author of Orphan Train) and "a moving and graceful tribute to heroic women" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), asks the question: What if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever?

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, this is a searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of courageous Red Cross women.
"Urrea's touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself." -Financial Times
In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.

After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact.

Taking as inspiration his mother's own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women's heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea's "gifts as a storyteller are prodigious" (NPR).

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 juni 2024
Aantal pagina's: 432

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Hoofdauteur: Luis A Urrea
Hoofduitgeverij: Back Bay Books

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm

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EAN: 9780316265959

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

Historische romans

Literaire romans

Oorlogsromans

Tweede Wereldoorlog

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Taal: Engels
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