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Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction Historical fiction War stories |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jayne Anne Phillips |
ISBN: | 9780375401954 0375401954 |
OCLC Number: | 229027336 |
Awards: | National Book Award finalist. |
Description: | 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Machine derived contents note: Contents -- July 26 -- Leavitt He¿d shipped out to Occupied Japan -- Lark I move his chair into the yard under the tree -- Nonie The social work people marched right in -- Termite He sees through the blue -- Leavitt You¿ll be safe here -- Lark I decorate the cake in three pale colors -- Nonie There¿s choice but no choice -- Termite Lark smells like the soap -- July 27 -- Leavitt He can hear the pain -- Lark He starts moving the colors -- Nonie I come into the kitchen soaking wet -- Termite In the basement the cold comes up -- Leavitt As though no time has passed -- July 28 -- Lark Rain falling across the alley -- Nonie Charlie insisted we go home -- Termite He hears the rain open and shut -- Leavitt Mashuhyo, mashuhyo -- July 31 -- Lark I put Termite in the wheelchair -- Nonie There we sat at the courthouse -- Termite The ragged orange cat -- Lola She sits by the open window. |
Responsibility: | Jayne Anne Phillips. |
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Abstract:
Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
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