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<p><p>From award-winning novelist Alexander Parsons comes a vivid chronicle of the traumatic impact of WWII on an American family at the dawn of the nuclear age.<br> <br>Set in the high desert badlands of New Mexico and the ravaged, war-torn landscape of the Philippine jungle, <i>In the Shadows of the Sun</i> tells the story of a New Mexican ranching family &#8212; the Stricklands &#8212; struggling to hold on to their way of life in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Imprisoned by the Japanese, Jack Strickland endures the horrors of the Bataan Death March, his will to stay alive fueled by his desire to return home. A world away, forces threaten to tear his family apart. An illicit love blooms between Baylis Strickland and his brother's wife, Sara, even as the family confronts the threat of devastating loss and displacement: they have been served with an eviction notice from the War Department, which plans to build a bombing range on the land they've worked for generations. <br> <br>In the tradition of Hampton Sides' <i>Ghost Soldiers</i> and Tim O'Brien's <i>If I Die in a Combat Zone</i>, Alexander Parsons writes with haunting power about the effects of war. The result is an unforgett

Author

Parsons, Alexander

Publisher

New York: Anchor Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400077151

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction