Elizabeth Guider

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This Nearly Was Ours (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

An "absorbing" and "gripping" historical novel about two friends in the South whose fates are at the mercy of the unforgiving landscape of WWII. "While war cuts its grim path through this novel, the main characters battle their own demons-unexpected, unsettling and uplifting by turn." - Kenith Trodd, TV and Film Producer Two young women come of age in New Orleans, eager to throw off the Depression. For a brief moment in 1939, the world appears to be their oyster. Claire is beautiful; Myra is brainy. But when Pearl Harbor jolts the country, men rush to enlist, women flood the work force-and the two friends scramble to find purpose. Myra takes up a civilian post at a military camp. Claire is snapped up by Naval Intelligence to track U-boats in the Gulf. Meanwhile, Myra's childhood chum Frederick ships out to Europe; Claire's presumed intended, Richard, reports for duty in the Pacific. While war rages abroad, the home front becomes its own battleground. Claire falls for a mysterious young man named Tomas, a Jewish immigrant with a complicated past. Although his ardor is no less than hers, he is eventually fingered as an enemy alien. Myra carries a torch for Claire's officer brother Addison, who commands a carrier in the Pacific. Through the men's letters from afar and their own challenges at home, the two friends learn how baffling, and brutal, war can be. And no one is left unscathed. "Weaving her strong cast of characters in a landscape with its own particular atmosphere, the author crafts each story with a masterly hand and without cliché. The book constantly surprised me." - Wendy Oberman, Playwright and Novelist "The novel reminds us that the shadows of history are never far behind. Absorbing and gripping to the final page, it was one of the rare books that I've read this year that even when it ended, I didn't want to put down." - Neil Gader, Magazine Editor "Guider is a native of the Deep South, and she wields an authoritative "spoon," cooking it all up with a rich gumbo of locations and characters who add distinct and varied flavors." - Janet Stilson, Author and Journalist "The author made it easy to empathize with the changing lives of the characters through and beyond war's end, alternately relishing or regretting their eventual fates." - S.A. Maratex, Producer "The author blends careful attention to history with a literary territory she knows well-a changing culture in the South as World War II unfolds." - Patricia Frith, Entertainment Executive

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Autor

Elizabeth Guider is a longtime entertainment journalist who has worked in Rome, Paris and London as well as in New York and Los Angeles. Born in the South, she holds a doctorate in Renaissance Studies from New York University. During the late 1970's, she was based in Rome where she taught English and American literature and where much of the action of her first novel, The Passionate Palazzo, takes place.

While in Europe, she worked as an entertainment reporter for the showbiz newspaper Variety, focusing on the film business, television and theater. She also traveled widely, reporting on the politics affecting media from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong as well as covering various festivals and trade shows in Cannes, Monte Carlo, Venice and Berlin. Back in the States since the early 1990's , she specialized on the burgeoning TV industry and eventually held top editor positions at Variety and latterly at The Hollywood Reporter. Most recently she has freelanced for World Screen News as senior contributing editor.

She mostly divides her time between Los Angeles and Vicksburg, MS where she grew up and which is the setting for Milk and Honey on the Other Side.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: FoundationsBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224165742
• Artikelnr.: 72400948