When the world was young : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1400064686 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781400064687 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1400064686 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781400064687 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781400064687 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1400064686 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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x, 298 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2014]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | I. PARADE -- 1. Radar -- 2. Oleo -- 3. A Balsa Wood Fleet -- 4. Brothers -- 5. The War Effort -- 6. The Department of Military Multiplication -- 7. The Warehouse -- 8. Natural History -- 9. The Cape -- 10. The Shadow -- 11. The Queen -- II. FAIL-SAFE -- 12. Red Door -- 13. Special Delivery -- 14. Louise -- 15. A Thing of Beauty -- 16. The Cake -- 17. Finger Sandwiches -- 18. The Niche -- 19. Mammy's Pantry -- 20. Picnic -- 21. Suspicions -- 22. The Traveling Salesman Problem -- 23. The Ant Lion -- 24. Mothballs -- 25. A Calling -- III. PHEROMONES -- 26. Letters -- 27. Uptown / Downtown -- 28. Chemistry -- 29. The Tiger Beetle -- 30. The Half Grapefruit -- 31. Scrapbooking -- 32. Dear Wally -- 33. Answers -- 34. Good News -- 35. Beatrice. |
Summary, etc.: | Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit-- especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. This novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America. Reeling from her own unexpected wartime tragedy and navigating an increasingly fraught landscape, Wally is forced to confront painful truths about the world-- its sorrows, its prejudices, its conflicts, its limitations. But Wally also finds hope and strength in the unlikeliest places. A novel about the truths that divide and the love that keeps us together. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 Fiction Household employees Fiction Family secrets Fiction Single women Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. War stories. Historical fiction. |
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