Corporal Rocco Raven, a scared Brooklyn kid assigned to the island of Malta during World War II, falls for Melita, a Maltese jukebox repairwoman, leading to a moving, funny, and, finally, calamitous wartime love affair. 25,000 first printing.

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Nicholas Rinaldi's stories and poems have appeared widely in literary journals here and abroad. He is the author of three collections of poetry -- The Resurrection of the Snails, We Have Lost Our Fathers, and The Luftwaffe in Chaos -- and the novel Bridge Fall Down. He teaches literature and creative writing at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where he resides with his wife, Jacqueline.

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We are a general antiquarian bookshop with a focus on folklore, legends, fairy tales, publishers? bindings, illustrated books, detective/crime fiction, literature and history. We occasionally issue lists and catalogues and participate in bookfairs in Canada and abroad. We buy individual books and collections, as well as ephemera, posters, photographs, archives and other interesting and unusual or rare items. Karol Krysik Books is a proud member of the Antiquarian Booksellers? Association of Canada (ABAC), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) and we adhere to these organizations? strict codes of ethics.

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