There's no home : a novel /

There's no home : a novel /

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Author / Creator:Baron, Alexander, 1917-1999
Imprint:London : Sort Of Books, 2011.
Description:276 p. : port. ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
World War (1939-1945)
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Sicily -- Fiction.
Soldiers.
Sicily (Italy) -- Fiction.
Great Britain.
Italy -- Sicily.
Fiction.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8953235
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Other authors / contributors:Williams, John, 1961-
ISBN:9780956308603
0956308600
Summary:It's 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombedout city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain there. Yearning for some semblance of home life, the men begin to fill the roles left by absent husbands and fathers. Unlikely relationships form; tender, exploitative even cruel, and each doomed to end when the battalion moves on. Many lives interleave in There's No Home but at its heart is the love that develops between Graziella, a bright young mother, and Sergeant Craddock, whose.

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