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Jarratt, David Arthur

 
9781436328081: Quarry: A North School gang mystery
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ISBN 10 : 143632808X ISBN 13 : 9781436328081
Editeur : Xlibris, 2008

Synopsis

On a hot July day in 1944, the chubby member of a group of soon-to-be Seventh Graders discovers a body tied to two cinder blocks at the bottom of the town quarry while swimming. Quarry is about the discovery of not only the body, but also the leader of a Nazi spy ring that operates from their small Ohio town where a world-renowned scientist is doing secret experiments at the local 'Polytechnic Institute' to facilitate the end of the war This is a 'coming-of-age' novel about six boys growing up in Middle America during the height of World War II. The effect the war has on their daily lives and the lives of their families. It combines the warmth of a loving family with the terror of a dysfunctional one, the goodness of a War Widow, the affection for children, no matter their color or ethnic background, of a wonderful singer and teacher, and camaraderie of not only the boys, but the local police force, which is brought together by this mystery. The 'quarry' of this story brings all these elements together and shows the characters at their best and worst, as the war progresses and sabotage is on the increase by enemy and American alike. We meet FBI agents from Cleveland and Cincinnati, learn the identity of the 'body' found in the quarry, are brought back to 1940's America through the use of the slang of the period, gasoline and food rationing, popular radio shows, movies and visual images of the war through the popular Movie-tone News. The headlines of the major newspapers, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Columbus Dispatch shout the bad news at home and on the war fronts as two of the boys deliver their papers each morning. It demonstrates how entertainment even then, the love of music, square dancing, and 'the movies,' helped America survive the war and its necessary absences at home. We watch the love grow between several of the adult characters and a budding infatuation of one of the boys for a girl also starting seventh grade. The inner workings of a small-town

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Présentation de l'éditeur

On a hot July day in 1944, the chubby member of a group of soon-to-be Seventh Graders discovers a body tied to two cinder blocks at the bottom of the town quarry while swimming. Quarry is about the discovery of not only the body, but also the leader of a Nazi spy ring that operates from their small Ohio town where a world-renowned scientist is doing secret experiments at the local 'Polytechnic Institute' to facilitate the end of the war This is a 'coming-of-age' novel about six boys growing up in Middle America during the height of World War II. The effect the war has on their daily lives and the lives of their families. It combines the warmth of a loving family with the terror of a dysfunctional one, the goodness of a War Widow, the affection for children, no matter their color or ethnic background, of a wonderful singer and teacher, and camaraderie of not only the boys, but the local police force, which is brought together by this mystery. The 'quarry' of this story brings all these elements together and shows the characters at their best and worst, as the war progresses and sabotage is on the increase by enemy and American alike. We meet FBI agents from Cleveland and Cincinnati, learn the identity of the 'body' found in the quarry, are brought back to 1940's America through the use of the slang of the period, gasoline and food rationing, popular radio shows, movies and visual images of the war through the popular Movie-tone News. The headlines of the major newspapers, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Columbus Dispatch shout the bad news at home and on the war fronts as two of the boys deliver their papers each morning. It demonstrates how entertainment even then, the love of music, square dancing, and 'the movies,' helped America survive the war and its necessary absences at home. We watch the love grow between several of the adult characters and a budding infatuation of one of the boys for a girl also starting seventh grade. The inner workings of a small-town

Biographie de l'auteur

David Arthur Jarratt is Hoosier born and Buckeye bred. He is a retired US Army Lt. Colonel, Master Army Aviator and graduate of the Command and General Staff College. He earned a BA degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and a Master of Music degree with Highest Honors from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He presently lives in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, works as a professional screen actor and concert singer and occasionally pecks out stories on his PC. His personal flying memoir titled SHORT HOPS: My Life as a Flyer! was recently published by Xlibris.

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Éditeur
Xlibris
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
143632808X
ISBN 13 
9781436328081
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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