Steel Valley depicts a story of love longed for, lost, and perhaps still within reach just as our nation’s mythic yesterday became our troubled today, our last summer of innocents. A can't put down page turner!
Kirkus Book Review: "A debut novel of the '60s that becomes more engaging as the pages turn.
... A keen sense of time and place is present ... Madden ... keeps readers guessing in that regard; Jack goes missing in action in Vietnam, Laurie marries someone else, and that’s just for starters. A disclaimer tries to separate history from fiction, but it also notes that Jack’s life shares strong similarities with Madden’s.
The Story: This is a love story set in the Upper Ohio Valley in the 1960s when two seemingly permanent forces—the steel industry and Catholic parochial schools—were at their zeniths. Both no longer exist but they form the background for the story of Jack Clark and Laurie Carmin who came of age just as our relative simplicity was slipping away.
Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs): Included in the 2024 Goethe Book Awards Short List for Late Historical Fiction. Under consideration for the 2025 Chatelaine Book Awards Short List for Romantic Fiction.
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Vendeur : BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, Etats-Unis
Trade Paperback. Etat : New. Support Small Business by buying this book! Love is never easy.even in easier times, like the 1950s and 1960s in the Ohio Valley with the steel industry booming. Second-generation immigrant families were reaching for the American middle class. And Catholic schools--made feasible by selfless Catholic nuns--promised bigger lives for everyone, including Jack Clark and Laurie Carmine. As they spent years searching for their separate futures, though, they were also stumbling toward love just as their world came crashing down. Steel Valley depicts a story of love longed for, lost, and perhaps still within reach, just as our nation's mythic yesterday became our troubled today, our last summer of innocence. N° de réf. du vendeur 126398
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