Outrageous Fortune - Couverture souple

Ferris, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798631317741

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

Outrageous Fortune.“Would white girls actually like a negro? She was so different. She didn’t mind that he touched her and held her. Could he dare to imagine?”Carnon Mine, a hamlet near the village of Devoran in southern Cornwall, quiet and mainly unchanged for hundreds of years – until the 2nd world war. Three young people’s lives caught up in the outrageous forces of war are changed forever. Garfield enlists in the navy and is taken to far-flung places, and ultimately to endure the worse journey in the world – the Arctic Convoys to Russia. His two sisters Annie and Monica wait with increasing excitement whatever fate has in store for them.Across the Atlantic, in Monroeville, Alabama, two black men, Ray and Jesse, are eager to escape the harsh racism of the South, they ‘ride the rails’ to Detroit, to seek their fortune but the attack on Pearl Harbour hurtles them into the war. In Detroit, a white man, Charlie Macbeth enlists to escape an unsatisfactory marriage. Racism and bigotry, with the Jim Crow laws, follow Ray and Jesse in the army, even to England. Only when they are mobilised to the far-flung corner of Cornwall do they begin to realise what equality could be. The story follows Garfield, Monica and Annie and those Americans who are brought into their lives until that fateful D-Day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798631317741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
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