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Icebergs
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- Book Synopsis
- Two friends, Walter Dunmore and Al Clark, are the only members of their bomber crew to survive an airforce plane crash in World War II Canada. But they must struggle with the sub-zero wilderness of Newfoundland's Labrador coast until help arrives. Meanwhile, on the homefront, in a small farming community, Walt's wife Dottie struggles with her own battles: loneliness, anxiety and her attraction to an itinerant farm worker.Only one man comes home alive from Labrador, but the lives of their two families remain forever entwined. Years later, in Chicago where they've all moved, questions of loyalty and bravery ensnare their children. And as they confront the horrors of Vietnam one of them will be left to choose between revenge or sacrifice. The novel follows the characters into old age, when decades-old secrets are laid bare to redeem the present and illuminate the past. Rebecca Johns explores with remarkable grace and intimacy themes of love and infidelity, bravery and cowardice, domesticity and marriage.
- About The Author
- Rebecca Johns was born in Illinois in 1971. She has worked for publications such as LIFEand Woman's Day, and her articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Selfand Seventeen. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was awarded the Michener-Copernicus Award for this, her first novel.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780747578000
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, (02 January 2007)
- Number of Pages
- 297
- Weight
- 456 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 23 mm
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