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There's no home : a novel / Alexander Baron ; afterword by John L. Williams.
Van Pelt Library PR6003.A745 T5 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baron, Alexander, 1917-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Soldiers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Sicily--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Sicily (Italy)--Fiction.
- Sicily (Italy).
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages : portrait ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sort Of Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- It's 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombedout city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain there. Yearning for some semblance of home life, the men begin to fill the roles left by absent husbands and fathers. Unlikely relationships form; tender, exploitative even cruel, and each doomed to end when the battalion moves on. Many lives interleave in There's No Home but at its heart is the love that develops between Graziella, a bright young mother, and Sergeant Craddock, whose.
- ISBN:
- 9780956308603
- 0956308600
- OCLC:
- 814306391
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