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Wiggins Marianne - Properties Of Thirst - Paperback
Wiggins Marianne - Properties Of Thirst - Paperback
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Description: A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a big bold book (US a Today) destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream. Rockwell Rocky Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the L a Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins Sunny and Stryker and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese American internment camp next to the ranch Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the L a watermen he's battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family. Properties of Thirst is a magnificent (Colum Mc Cann) novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country's past told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately it is an unflinching distillation of our nation's essence and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.
Title: Properties Of Thirst
Author(s): Wiggins Marianne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781416571278
Pages: 544 Pages, Stepback; Tip-In;
Publication Date: 5/30/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a big bold book (US a Today) destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream. Rockwell Rocky Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the L a Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins Sunny and Stryker and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese American internment camp next to the ranch Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the L a watermen he's battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family. Properties of Thirst is a magnificent (Colum Mc Cann) novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country's past told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately it is an unflinching distillation of our nation's essence and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.
Title: Properties Of Thirst
Author(s): Wiggins Marianne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781416571278
Pages: 544 Pages, Stepback; Tip-In;
Publication Date: 5/30/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
