Joan revisits her life, blighted by WW2, drawing her daughter into her imaginings and desires. The boundaries between them collapse.
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie...
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In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy.
Here is a personal portrait of a nation at war, with contemporary photographs, diaries, letters, poems, and other memorabilia belonging to the men and women whose wartime lives are featured.
But anxious times to come, too. His father goes into the army, and the boy misses him terribly....Stevenson is adept at presenting the unsettling mixture of the humorous, the day-to-day, and the serious moments.
As he did in his classic autobiographies When I Was Nine, Higher on the Door, and July, Stevenson continues to answer the perpetual question, "What was it like when you...
Don't You Know There's a War On
This is not a book which sets out to expound the glories of war, nor does the author pretend that these were the best years of his life.
It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world.