Nora's Army

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Nora's Army is a racially charged love triangle set in Washington DC during the spring and summer of 1932, when 60,000 WWI veterans set up camp around the US Capitol to lobby for early payment of a congressional bonus. For one of the first times in American history, blacks and whites in those camps lived in complete integration. The novel's three main characters are: Nora O'Sullivan, a 17 year old Irish girl who crossed the Atlantic while tracking a thief. Randolph Walker, 18–year–old Communist organizer. He grew...
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Overview

Nora's Army is a racially charged love triangle set in Washington DC during the spring and summer of 1932, when 60,000 WWI veterans set up camp around the US Capitol to lobby for early payment of a congressional bonus. For one of the first times in American history, blacks and whites in those camps lived in complete integration. The novel's three main characters are: Nora O'Sullivan, a 17 year old Irish girl who crossed the Atlantic while tracking a thief. Randolph Walker, 18–year–old Communist organizer. He grew up as a middle class white kid until the age of 13 when his father discovered his illegitimacy and sent him to DC to live with his black paternal grandfather. Eric Sevareid, 19–year–old fledgling reporter who writes the first Bonus Army stories. The friendship and romance that develops among Nora, Walker and Sevareid is the core of the novel.
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The Montserrat Review
Nora's Army by Denis Collins is an amazing book. I only use "amazing" 3 times every ten years, now that the word has been co-opted by TV hosts and college kids. Denis Collins presents a time in history, 1932, where very little fiction has focused with precision on Washington DC. This is history and fiction, featuring members of the bonus army camping in Washington, waiting for recompense and restitution via US Congress.
—Grace Cavalieri
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780931846830
  • Publisher: Washington Writers' Publishing House
  • Publication date: 12/1/2006
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Denis Collins has been a journalist with the Washington Post, Miami Herald and San Jose Mercury News, and a freelance writer in New Zealand, Belgium and the Netherlands. Spying: The Secret History of History, a non-fiction book was published in 2005. He lives in Washington DC where he publishes a creative writing journal, The Oracle.
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