Monday, Monday - Brossura

Crook, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 125006922X ISBN 13: 9781250069221

Casa editrice: Picador, 2015

Riassunto

Traces the lives of three survivors of a mass shooting at the University of Texas in 1966, including a young woman who narrowly escapes and two cousins with whom she shares a decades-long secret. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Elizabeth Crook is the author of three previous novels. Her novel The Night Journal won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America and a WILLA Literary Award from Women Writing the West. She has written for magazines and periodicals, including Texas Monthly and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. She lives in Austin with her family.

Product Description:

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of FictionOne of "Kirkus Reviews'" Best Fiction Books of the Year and a "Wall Street Journal" Favorite Book of the YearOn an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. "Monday, Monday" follows three students caught up in the massacre: Shelly, who leaves class and walks directly into the path of the bullets, and two cousins, Wyatt and Jack, who heroically rush from their classrooms to help the victims.This searing day marks the beginning of a relationship that will entangle these three young people in a forbidden love affair, an illicit pregnancy, and a vow of silence that will span forty years. Reunited decades after the tragedy, Shelly, Wyatt, and Jack will be thrown back once more to the event that changed their lives, and confronted with the lingering power of a secret none of them are ready to reveal. With "Monday, Monday"," " "Elizabeth Crook has written an extraordinary novel-an eloquent love story born from an act of random violence, a tale of destruction and redemption" (Sarah Bird).

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 125006922X
• ISBN 13: 9781250069221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352