Letter from Home
by Hart, Carolyn G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0425191796
- ISBN 13
- 9780425191798
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
New York: Berkley Hardcover, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A tight clean copy, not price clipped or ex-lib edition. Hart has created a fabulous two-in-one: an excellent mystery and the poignant memoirs of her heroine, Gretchen Grace Gilman. A letter received by the now elderly newshound extraordinaire returns her physically, mentally and emotionally to her past and to her hometown in northeastern Oklahoma. As the pages of the letter unfold, so does the story of Gretchen's summer of 1944. With every able-bodied male involved in the war effort, Gazette editor Walt Dennis agrees to give 13-year-old Gretchen a shot as a newspaper reporter. But the sleepy town is soon rocked by the murder of Faye Tatum, an artist and the mom of Gretchen's friend and neighbor Barb. To make matters worse, the prime suspect is Barb's dad, Clyde, home on leave but nowhere to be found after the murder. Political ambitions spur the county attorney and the sheriff to track down Clyde and arrest him, while less hasty Chief Fraser is more interested in first sorting through all the facts. The obviously well-researched history draws the reader into this atypical whodunit. Characters are Steinbeck vivid, as is the sense of time and place. Hart masterfully portrays an American small town during WWII.
Synopsis
World-renowned journalist G.G. Gilman does her best not to think of the past. But one day she gets a letter—sent from the small Oklahoma town where she grew up—that brings it all back. Memories of people she had once known and loved dearly—and of the sultry summer when her life changed forever.
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Details
- Seller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000011056
- Title
- Letter from Home
- Author
- Hart, Carolyn G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0425191796
- ISBN 13
- 9780425191798
- Publisher
- Berkley Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
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