Truly Are the Free Contributor(s): Walker, Jeffrey K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947108026 ISBN-13: 9781947108028 Publisher: Jeffrey K. Walker OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | African American - Historical |
Series: Sweet Wine of Youth |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5" W x 8" (0.67 lbs) 278 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 2018 Writer's Digest 2018 Self-Published Book Awards Honorable Mention 2018 B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree 2018 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Finalist 2018 Discovered Diamond 2018 Goethe Award for Historical Fiction Long-Listed 2017 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist South Boston-native Ned Tobin has all the luck. Alive after the Somme, now an officer, he meets, beds and falls in love with the alluring Ad le Ch reaux, a half-English lyc e teacher who gives herself fully to Ned. Their love affair is suddenly upended in 1917 when Ned is called home and Ad le flees the last German advance of the First World War. Harlem lawyer Chester Dawkins is a fine young man and a devoted brother. He dutifully joins a new regiment anxious to fight for their chance at valor in the face of deep-rooted racism. Meanwhile, his sister, Lena, is left at home to shoulder a crippling legacy of family debt. Ned finds himself back in France with Chester's regiment. Can these soldiers from very different backgrounds overcome long-held prejudices and find common cause in the bloody trenches? Will Ned ever find Ad le again? And what will become of Lena? Journey through avant-garde Paris, Prohibition-era Harlem and newly independent Ireland in this heart-wrenching yet hopeful story of love and loss. Has Ned's luck finally run out? |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Jeffrey K.: - JEFFREY K. WALKER has been a stock broker, bomber navigator, prosecuting attorney, international consultant and professor of law and history. Truly Are the Free is the second book in his World War I and 1920s trilogy, Sweet Wine of Youth. He lives with his wife in the Tidewater region of Virginia. |