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Format:
Book
Title:
In the unlikely event
Author:
ISBN:
9781101875049

9781101873984

9781509801664

9781101875056
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Physical Description:
401 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
"This is Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Summary:
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place -- Nat King Cole singing "Unforgettable," Elizabeth Taylor haircuts, young (and not-so-young) love, explosive friendships, A-bomb hysteria, rumors of Communist threat. And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy. Through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on.
Electronic Access:
http://www.judyblume.com/
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