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A distant heartbeat : a war, a disappearance, and a family's secrets / Eunice Lipton.

Title: A distant heartbeat : a war, a disappearance, and a family's secrets / Eunice Lipton.
Author: Lipton, Eunice.
Publication: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2016]

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x, 165 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

On May 20, 1938, a young man from the Bronx informs his parents that he is leaving for the Catskills to begin his new job as a waiter. Instead, he sails for Europe to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, the opening round in the fight against Hitler and Mussolini. The man, Dave Lipton―the author’s uncle―sends letter after letter home detailing his hopes and begging for forgiveness. He never receives a reply. Decades later, Eunice Lipton stumbles upon clues for this silence, uncovering details of Dave’s exhilarating political life in New York, his shuttered romantic life, and his deep friendship with another volunteer. A Distant Heartbeat tells a tale of passion and heroism, centered on a fierce competition between brothers, a packet of missing letters, and the unforeseen results of family betrayal.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references(pages 321-325)

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

How do we know who they were? -- Moving picture -- Dave in the archive -- Bronx calls -- Bill -- Why? -- Guesswork -- Reunion -- In the balance.

ISBN

9780826356581 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826356583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826356598 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015020397

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Harvard Library