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Harper Perennial
November 1985
On Sale: November 1, 1985
400 pages ISBN: 0060913010 EAN: 9780060913014 Paperback
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Fiction
Perhaps no novel since A Seperate Peace has so superbly
captured the impingement of a world at war upon a safe and
sheltered environment. The place in Mendoza, a small
oil-refining town thirty miles east of San Francisco. The
time encompassed is World War II, from the bombing of Pearl
Harbor until the bombing of Hiroshima. The narrator and
heroine of the story is the fierce yet enchanting Suse
Hansen. In the intervening four years, we watch with
compassion as Suse evolves from a tomboy who wishes to be a
trapeze artist to a young person whose moral growth has been
as remarkable as her blossoming womanhood. In Suse's
perceptions of the war, in her ability to reconcile her
unfolding knowledge of human nature with the horrors of the
news reports she so anxiously follows, we see a growth that
is all the more dramatic for the subtlety and awe with which
it is portrayed.
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