Icebergs: A Novel

Icebergs: A Novel

by Rebecca Johns
Icebergs: A Novel

Icebergs: A Novel

by Rebecca Johns

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Overview

In World War II Canada, Walt Dunmore and Al Clark are the only members of their bomber crew to survive a plane wreck on Newfoundland's Labrador coast-but now they must fight injuries and cold in the sub-zero wilderness. On the home front, in a small Canadian farming community, Walt's young wife Dottie struggles with her own battles: loneliness, worry, and an attraction to an itinerant farm worker. Only one man comes home alive from Labrador, but the lives of their two families remain forever entwined. Years later, when both families relocate to Chicago, questions of loyalty and bravery ensnare their children as they confront Vietnam and their own desires. One of them is left with a choice: revenge or sacrifice.

The novel follows the characters into old age, when decades-old secrets illuminate the present and the past. Johns expertly interweaves multiple storylines, maintaining tight narrative tension and slowly revealing the stories that bind her characters together. An ambitious, lyrical debut that explores romantic love and deceit, death and survival, war and domesticity, marriage, parenthood, and aging, Icebergs explores how tragedies narrowly averted can alter the course of lives as drastically as those met head-on.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596919464
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 12/11/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Rebecca Johns was born in Libertyville, Illinois, in 1971. She has worked for publications such as LIFE and Woman's Day, and her articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Self, and Seventeen. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and received the Michener-Copernicus Award for this, her first novel.
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