A World Away
By Stewart O'Nan
(Picador, Paperback, 9780312422776, 352pp.)
Publication Date: October 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: General
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A World Away reveals one of America’s most versatile writers at his romantic and elegiac best. In following the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, Stewart O’Nan brilliantly captures the mood of this lost world and the changing fate of a country aware that when the war ends, nothing will ever be the same.
Stewart O’Nan is the award-winning author of A Prayer for the Dying, Snow Angels, A World Away and, most recently, Wish You Were Here. Granta named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Avon, Connecticut.
"Majestically written...In a mere handful of chapters, O'Nan makes this theatre of war as vividly and unpleasantly unforgettable as any battlefield in literature." --San Francisco Chronicle
"O'Nan writes in spare, powerful language, like a poet.... [His] gift has always been to make us look beyond the pretty picture, straight into the eye of the human condition. And he does it again here, without blinking." --The Boston Globe
"O'Nan has a genius...for intricately overlapping streams of consciousness that rove back and forth, creating past and present with fleeting hints about the characters' lives that a reader needs to watch for like clues buried in a detective story." --The New York Times Book Review
"A novel of such depth and complexity that it enables us to apprehend the wartime world as if viewing it for the first time." --Daily News (New York)
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