Acts of Kindness, Acts of Contrition: A Love Story - Brossura

Ross, Sylvia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1466407980 ISBN 13: 9781466407985

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

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The novel, Acts of Kindness, Acts of Contrition, opens with the still unsolved West Los Angelesmurder of Jeanne French in 1947. The period following World War II was one of great energy and economic vitality in California.Film and aircraft industries provided jobs,geography provided good weather. The war wasover, and it was a time marked by frivolity.Narrated by Lynn Horvath, a child who knewand loved the victim, the book explores thatmid-century crime’s long term effects. As Lynnand her friends grow to reach adulthood, the novel reveals the quiet heroism in ordinary livesplayed out against the radical changes taking place in women’s lives

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Early in life, Southern California born writer Sylvia Ross worked as a cell painter for Walt Disney Productions in Burbank, California. Later, she taught school in Central California. She is the author/illustrator of two children’s books LION SINGER and BLUE JAY GIRL, and is also the author/illustrator of a small book of drawings and short writings: ACORNS AND ABALONE. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies. ACTS OF KINDNESS, ACTS OF CONTRITION, the story of the long-reaching effects of an act of violence, is her first novel. Her second novel, EAST OF THE GREAT VALLEY, dramatizes the struggle of Native People to survive the great genocide of the California Gold Rush period. Sylvia Ross and her husband make their home in the foothills of eastern Tulare County, California.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1466407980
• ISBN 13: 9781466407985
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 408