Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime
Dunning, John
AbeBooks Seller Since April 30, 2001
AbeBooks Seller Since April 30, 2001
About this Item
In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Unread. This is one of 2500 copies of the anti-limited 'Fingerprint' edition that is SIGNED boldly by the author on the limitation page accompanied by the inked fingerprint of the author's 'scarred, emabttled ring finger. Excellent tale of intrigue in 1942 at the height of WWII centeredaround a New Jersey radio station that envelopes the reader into a world of the mystery, romance, and the voice of radio from a bygone era. A light 'push' to tail of spine. Seller Inventory # 1002211
Bibliographic Details
Title: Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: SIGNED by the author on the Limitation Page.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
About this title
"Radio is the greatest invention of the past four centuries. It ranks right up there with Gutenberg's movable type as an earthshaking force.... One of the first things Gutenberg did with his movable type was print a magnificent Bible. The first thing radio did was argue how much selling would be permitted and how ridiculous it would be allowed to get. If it keeps on the way it's going there won't be anything worth listening to.... I have this almost morbid fear of the future--not that radio's greatest days will fade away but that its greatest day will never come. Fifty years from now it could just be a medium of hucksters and fools, a whorehouse in the sky."The speaker is Jack Dulaney, a novelist who follows a dead man's trail to the Jersey shore in the early days of World War II, where a radio station owned by a recluse has fallen on hard times. The mysterious Harford, who built the station as a showcase for his late wife's ambition, has all but abandoned WHAR, but the actors, writers, producers, and technicians who once shared the dead woman's dream are galvanized by the appearance of Dulaney, who finds his true métier in the creation of original, politically provocative broadcast dramas. He also discovers true love in a talented young singer, Holly Carnahan, whose affections he once sacrificed out of loyalty to his best friend.
Carnahan's search for her missing father involves Dulaney in a mystery rooted in the long-ago Boer War that has grown into a conspiracy peopled by German saboteurs, Irish nationalists, and African freedom fighters. The plotting is dense and the cast of minor characters merely sketched, but Dulaney's creative process is artfully drawn and the ambience of America in wartime is skillfully portrayed. --Jane Adams
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