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Henry Holt and Co.
November 2012
On Sale: November 13, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0805096701
EAN: 9780805096705
Kindle: B0080K3F1S
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
An exuberant debut that sweeps across the twentieth
century—beginning where one world-famous love story left off
to introduce us to another With Sophie Tucker
belting from his hand-crank phonograph and a circle of
boarding-school admirers laughing uproariously around him,
Ben "Trouble" Pinkerton first appears to us through the
amazed eyes of his Blaze Academy schoolmate, the crippled
orphan Woodley Sharpless. Soon Woodley finds his life
inextricably linked with this strange boy's. The son of
Lieutenant Benjamin Pinkerton and the geisha Madame
Butterfly, Trouble is raised in the United States by
Pinkerton (now a Democrat senator) and his American wife,
Kate. From early in life, Trouble finds himself at the
center of some of the biggest events of the century—and
though over time Woodley's and Trouble's paths diverge,
their lives collide again to dramatic effect. From
Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to WPA labor
during the Great Depression; from secret work at Los Alamos,
New Mexico, to a revelation on a Nagasaki hillside by the
sea—Woodley observes firsthand the highs and lows of the
twentieth century and witnesses, too, the extraordinary
destiny of the Pinkerton family. David Rain's The
Heat of the Sun is a high-wire act of sustained
invention—as playful as it is ambitious, as moving as it is
theatrical, and as historically resonant as it is evocative
of the powerful bonds of friendship and of love.
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