- World War, 1914-1918, Psychological aspects of World War, 1914-1918, Drowning victims, Fiction
Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Christina Schwarz
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- BCA, Doubleday, Ballantine Books.
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345460356
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“I suppose people will say it was my fault, that if I'd not gone home that March in 1919, Mathilda, my only sister, would not be dead.”
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