Eleven Days

Zusatztext An assured debut novel... [An] affecting portrayal of maternal love at a time of war. Informationen zum Autor Lea Carpenter graduated summa cum laude phi beta kappa from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard. She was one of the original editors at Francis Ford Coppola's literary magazine, Zoetrope, and later served as Deputy Publisher for The Paris Review. She lives in New York with her husband and their two sons. She has served in various capacities at the New York Public Library for over fifteen years, where she assists with new programming initiatives. This is her first novel. Klappentext A debut novel about a single mother and her son! a member of the US Special Operations Forces! who goes missing. With appeal to fans of "Homeland! The West Wing" and "The Yellow Birds". Zusammenfassung A stunning debut novel-unexpected, tautly written, suspenseful-that touches on some of the most profound questions we have about war as it tells us a haunting story of a single mother, and her son, a member of the US Special Operations Forces.

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The nature of courage, sacrifice, love and heroism are all considered in this powerful ... debut. For all its Hollywood sheen, it is as determined to educate as it is to entertain. It's a mission that Lea Carpenter executes coolly in precise and elegant prose. Daily Mail

Product details

• Authors: Lea Carpenter, Carpenter Lea
• Publisher: Two Roads
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9781444776263
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-7626-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary