Words of My Roaring

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About the author

Ernest J. Finney grew up on the peninsula just south of San Francisco and now divides his time between that city and the San Joaquin Valley. His books include the novels California Time (1998), Lady with the Alligator Purse (1992) and Winterchill (1989), and the short story collections Flights in the Heavenlies (1996) and Birds Landing (1986).

Summary

Set in a small town near San Francisco during World War II, this novel relates the confusions, dislocations, and brutality of war as they affect the home front. We see events through the eyes of a novice teacher, an abandoned boy, two young girls and a sailor scarred by his time in the war zone.

Product details

• Authors: Ernest J. Finney, Finney Ernest J.
• Assisted by: Ernest J. Finney (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780520216389
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21638-9
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: California Fiction; California Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary