Synopsis
Imagine a past you must have known, even if you weren't there. Birney, Illinois. Population 4,742. December 7, 1941. Ten-year-old Artie Garber sees his brother Roy go off to war. Artie and his friends watch the skies for German planes, and the streets for spies. When Roy returns, his girlfriend is with another guy. The scenes, sounds, and images of Birney are at once lost in time, yet still with us today in this masterful novel of loss and growth.
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About the Author
Dan Wakefield is a novelist, journalist and memoir writer. His novels include the bestsellers Going All the Way and Starting Over, which were both produced as feature films. Wakefield wrote the screenplay for Going All the Way, and created the NBC-TV primetime series "James at 15." His memoirs include New York in the Fifties, which was the basis of a documentary film of the same name and "Returning: A Spiritual Journey," which Bill Moyers called "One of the most important memoirs of the spirit I have ever read." Dan Wakefield edited and wrote the introductions for Kurt Vonnegut Letters and If This Isn't Nice, What is? Vonnegut's Advice to the Young.
Review
Comments of Wakefield's work: "Wakefield is a witty, graceful writer, reminiscent of Irvin Shaw in his prime, able to write dialogue that crackles, with thoroughly credible characters and settings." Robert Kirsch Los Angeles Times. "A gifted reporter and novelist" Mark Shorer The American Scholar. Praise for Under the Apple Tree "I loved the story of a young boy who "keeps watch" over the girlfriend his big brother leaves behind when he goes off to fight in WWII. . . the novel is wonderful, sad and funny." Gay Talese "He pulls it off! The question that remains is, just how did he manage to work such magic?" Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times. --Los Angeles Times, The American Scholar
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