A Future Arrived - Softcover

Rock, Phillip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340396474 ISBN 13: 9780340396476

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1987

Synopsis

Chronicles the lives of young people born just after World War I--the fatherless Derek Ramsey, his friend Colin, American Martin Rilke, and the beautiful Wood-Lacy twins and their sister Kate

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The final installment of the saga of the Grevilles of Abingdon Pryory begins in the early 1930s, as the dizzy gaiety of the Jazz Age comes to a shattering end. What follows is a decade of change and uncertainty, as the younger generation, born during or just after the "war to end all wars," comes of age.

American writer Martin Rilke has made his journalistic mark, earning worldwide fame with his radio broadcasts, and young Albert Thaxton seeks to follow in his footsteps as a foreign correspondent. Derek Ramsey, born only weeks after his father fell in France, and Colin Ross, a dashing Yankee, leave their schoolboy days behind and enter fighter pilot training as young men. The beautiful Wood-Lacy twins, Jennifer and Victoria, and their passionate younger sister, Kate, strive to forge independent paths, while learning to love—and to let go.

In their heady youth and bittersweet growth to adulthood, they are the future—but the shadows that touched the lives of the generation before are destined to reach out to their own.

About the Author:

Born in Hollywood, California, Phillip Rock lived in England with his family until the blitz of 1940. He spent his adult years in Los Angeles and published three novels before the Passing Bells series: Flickers, The Dead in Guanajuato, and The Extraordinary Seaman. He died in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0340396474
• ISBN 13: 9780340396476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368