The Coldest Night [electronic resource] : A Novel
Olmstead, Robert2019
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From young love to the Korean War, a boy’s coming of age is wrought with shattering trials in this “riveting, thoughtful and . . . harrowing” novel (The Washington Post).A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearHenry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl’s father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir—the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Algonquin Books, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9781616202699
Language:
English
BRN:
4147320