Research Catalog

Title

The wind is not a river / Brian Payton.

Author

Payton, Brian, 1966-

Publication

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]

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Description

308 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as "the birthplace of winds." There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese. Alone at home, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is--and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows."-- Dust jacket flap.

Subject

• 1939-2099
• World War, 1939-1945 > Alaska > Fiction
• Wilderness survival > Fiction
• Aleutian Islands (Alaska) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Adventure fiction
• Love stories
• Fiction

Note

• "A novel"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0062279971
• 9780062279972

OCLC

• 862000926
• SCSB-11107896

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library