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An American Tune

Barbara Shoup

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Description:A woman's former life as a radical antiwar protestor threatens her new identity as a wife and mother in this "poignant and stirring novel" (Booklist).While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name--her real name--a name she has not heard in more than twentyfive years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. Now Jane, and her radical past, are about to come into the light.Shuttling between the present day and the turbulent 1960s, An American Tune tells the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who flees when she becomes complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she becomes: a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An American Tune is both a poignant story of a family crushed under the weight of suppressed truths, and an evocation of a country struggling with its own violent legacy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An American Tune. To get started finding An American Tune, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 324

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Release: 2016

ISBN: 0253023351

Description: A woman's former life as a radical antiwar protestor threatens her new identity as a wife and mother in this "poignant and stirring novel" (Booklist).While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name--her real name--a name she has not heard in more than twentyfive years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. Now Jane, and her radical past, are about to come into the light.Shuttling between the present day and the turbulent 1960s, An American Tune tells the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who flees when she becomes complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she becomes: a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An American Tune is both a poignant story of a family crushed under the weight of suppressed truths, and an evocation of a country struggling with its own violent legacy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An American Tune. To get started finding An American Tune, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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