Words of My Roaring (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520216389)

Set in a small town south of San Francisco during World War II, Words of My Roaring is a compelling picture of the confusions, the dislocations, and the brutality of war as they affect the home front. The novel recreates a neighborhood in San Bruno and connects it to San Francisco and the larger stage of the war. Tanforan racetrack, first an assembly camp for Japanese Americans awaiting internment, becomes a naval training base for Pacific-bound recruits. The elementary school becomes a USO, and air-raid drills and blackouts are routine as California prepares for an expected Japanese invasion. We see these events through the eyes of a novice teacher, an abandoned boy, two young girls whose mother works in the shipyards and whose father enlists in the Army, and a sailor scarred by his months in the war zone. Words of My Roaring is a richly textured, emotionally charged novel about the unlikely sources of human redemption.

Author: Ernest J. Finney
ISBN-10: 0520216385
ISBN-13: 9780520216389
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 380
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.51w x 0.93d