| Nothing But a Smile Contributor(s): Amick, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307390195 ISBN-13: 9780307390196 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 Annotation: From the author of the widely praised novel "The Lake, the River & the Other Lake" comes this love story of a man and a woman who choose an unconventional way to redefine themselves during and after World War II. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.54" W x 7.92" (0.54 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his utterly charming story of a World War II veteran and an enterprising pinup girl, Steve Amick has created a beautifully understated love letter to an America of harder times and simpler choices. It's 1944, and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Yank and Stars and Stripes, arrives in Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him discharged. Renting a room above the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton--the wife of Wink's buddy, still stationed in the Philippines--Wink is surprised to learn how Sal is making ends meet: producing pinup photos for the soldiers' girlie magazines. In fact, she's using herself as a model. When Wink becomes a partner in her covert enterprise, it's the beginning of a collaboration that is both wonderfully sexy and pure, one that not only leads to Wink's reinvention as a photographer but also--amid the painful adjustments of the postwar world--blossoms into a subtle and unexpected romance. |