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Love and war in California
- Title
- Love and war in California / Oakley Hall.
- Author
- Hall, Oakley M.
- Publication
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3558.A373 L68 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 280 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The award-winning author Oakley Hall begins his newest work in 1940s San Diego, where his endearing, wide-eyed narrator must define his identity in terms of self, family, and World War II. As his classmates disappear into the war one by one, he becomes obsessed with abuses of power and embroiled with the charming, dangerous Errol Flynn; with the Red Baiting of the American Legion; with the House Un-American Activities Committee; and with the Japanese interment at Manzanar. Nevertheless, Payton, too, must go to the war, where he is a part of the invasion of Europe and that proving of the American soldier: the Battle of the Bulge. After war's end and time in New York, he returns to California as a writer and a seeker, whose old, long-lost love rises from the ashes to show him who he really is." "Love and War in California is more than a novel about a young boy who grows old. It's about how the passions of youth become the verities of age, and how we evolve as a nation, a country, and a people during times that are all at once turbulent, dangerous, and stirring."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- California > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- ISBN
- 0312357621
- 9780312357627
- LCCN
- 2006053192
- OCLC
- OCM77270607
- 77270607
- SCSB-5331003
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries