An American tune : a novel /
Author / Creator: | Shoup, Barbara. |
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Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012. |
Description: | 315 p. ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Break away books Break away books. |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8927047 |
Summary: | While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. An American Tune moves back and forth in time, telling the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who fled town after she was complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she became, a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An achingly poignant account of a family crushed under the weight of suppressed truths, An American Tune illuminates the irrevocability of our choices and how those choices come to compose the tune of our lives. |
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Physical Description: | 315 p. ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: | 9780253007421 0253007429 9780253007544 0253007542 |