Under the Apple Tree

Wakefield, Dan

ISBN 10: 0440092221 / ISBN 13: 9780440092223

Published by Delacorte, NY, 1982

About this Item

First printing. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket with minute edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings. "A haunting story of love and growing up in America during World War II." (box 14).

Seller Inventory # 002017

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Under the Apple Tree
• Publisher: Delacorte, NY
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440092221
• ISBN 13: 9780440092223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Fiction

About this title

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.

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.