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Phantoms : a novel
- Title
- Phantoms : a novel / Christian Kiefer.
- Author
- Kiefer, Christian, 1971-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-5772 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 233 pages : illustration, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam. In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier's fiction, Phantoms is a fierce saga of American culpability. A Vietnam vet still reeling from war, John Frazier finds himself an unwitting witness to a confrontation, decades in the making, between two steely matriarchs: his aunt, Evelyn Wilson, and her former neighbor, Kimiko Takahashi. John comes to learn that in the onslaught of World War II, the Takahashis had been displaced as once-beloved tenants of the Wilson orchard and sent to an internment camp. One question has always plagued both families: What happened to the Takahashi son, Ray, when he returned from service and found that Placer County was no longer home--that nowhere was home for a Japanese American? As layers of family secrets unravel, the harrowing truth forces John to examine his own guilt. In prose recalling Thomas Wolfe, Phantoms is a stunning exploration of the ghosts of American exceptionalism that haunt us today"--
- Subjects
- United States
- Veterans > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Literary
- California > Fiction
- United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction
- World War (1939-1945)
- Secrecy > Fiction
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- 1939-1975
- FICTION / Historical / General
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Novels
- Japanese Americans > Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- FICTION / Literary.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 230-232).
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5772
- ISBN
- 9780871404817
- 0871404818
- LCCN
- 2018044996
- 40029041326
- OCLC
- 1037810785
- Author
- Kiefer, Christian, 1971- author.
- Title
- Phantoms : a novel / Christian Kiefer.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 230-232).
- Local Note
- AUTH: ASHLAND UNIVERSITY.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1975
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029041326
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5772