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"A master American novelist." --Vanity Fair "Ward Just is both a writer's writer and an astute tracker of human souls under duplicity and duress . . . American Romantic, his eighteenth, is one of his finest."--Gail Godwin, New York Times Book Review
Harry Sanders is a young Foreign Service officer in 1960s Indochina when a dangerous and clandestine meeting with insurgents--ending in quiet disaster--and a brief but passionate encounter with Sieglinde, a young German woman, alter the course of his life. Absorbing the impact of his misstep, Harry returns briefly to Washington before eventual assignments in Africa, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean. He marries the captivating May, who is fleeing her own family disappointments in worn-out upper New England and looking for an escape into Harry's diplomatic life. On the surface, they are a handsome, successful couple--but the memory of Sieglinde persists in Harry's thoughts, and May has her own secrets too. As Harry navigates the increasingly treacherous waters of diplomacy in an age of interminable conflict, he also tries to narrow the distance between himself and the two alluring women who have chosen to love him.
Author: Ward Just
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/14/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780544538672
ISBN10: 0544538676
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | War & Military
- Fiction | Literary
Harry Sanders is a young Foreign Service officer in 1960s Indochina when a dangerous and clandestine meeting with insurgents--ending in quiet disaster--and a brief but passionate encounter with Sieglinde, a young German woman, alter the course of his life. Absorbing the impact of his misstep, Harry returns briefly to Washington before eventual assignments in Africa, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean. He marries the captivating May, who is fleeing her own family disappointments in worn-out upper New England and looking for an escape into Harry's diplomatic life. On the surface, they are a handsome, successful couple--but the memory of Sieglinde persists in Harry's thoughts, and May has her own secrets too. As Harry navigates the increasingly treacherous waters of diplomacy in an age of interminable conflict, he also tries to narrow the distance between himself and the two alluring women who have chosen to love him.
Author: Ward Just
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/14/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780544538672
ISBN10: 0544538676
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | War & Military
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
WARD JUST's seventeen previous novels include Forgetfulness, the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.