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Rumors of Peace by Ella Leffland (1985, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060913010

ISBN-139780060913014

eBay Product ID (ePID)18632

Product Key Features

Book TitleRumors of Peace

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

TopicGeneral, Coming of Age

GenreFiction

AuthorElla Leffland

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN78-020209

Reviews"A book of acute insight and delicious humor. . . absorbing and poignant and full of difficult truth." -- New York magazine "A brilliant and original novel that will remain in your consciousness throughout a lifetime." -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner "One of those deceptively guileless novels, like A Member of the Wedding and To Kill a Mockingbird, that sees more than it lets on." -- New York Times Book Review "Rumors of Peace is a rare book, a delicious recalling. It is a book to shout about." -- West Coast Review of Books

SynopsisPerhaps no novel since A Seperate Peace has so superbly captured the impingement of a world at war upon a safe and sheltered environment. The place in Mendoza, a small oil-refining town thirty miles east of San Francisco. The time encompassed is World War II, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor until the bombing of Hiroshima. The narrator and heroine of the story is the fierce yet enchanting Suse Hansen. In the intervening four years, we watch with compassion as Suse evolves from a tomboy who wishes to be a trapeze artist to a young person whose moral growth has been as remarkable as her blossoming womanhood. In Suse's perceptions of the war, in her ability to reconcile her unfolding knowledge of human nature with the horrors of the news reports she so anxiously follows, we see a growth that is all the more dramatic for the subtlety and awe with which it is portrayed., "One of those deceptively guileless novels, like A Member of the Wedding and To Kill a Mockingbird, that sees more than it lets on." --New York Times Book Review "A book of acute insight and delicious humor. . . . Absorbing and poignant and full of difficult truth." --Rosellen Brown, New York Magazine Though radio broadcasts grow more harrowing every day, and soon, swastika-marked envelopes begin to arrive from cousins overseas, but the fighting in Europe still seems far away from the idyllic California home of ten-year-old tomboy Suse Hansen. But after Pearl Harbor, everything changes. In Ella Leffland's beautifully wrought story of a young girl's coming of age during WWII, the fighting in Europe looms behind the tranquility of family, friends, and neighbors--until the darkness of the war becomes suddenly, irrevocably real., "One of those deceptively guileless novels, like A Member of the Wedding and To Kill a Mockingbird , that sees more than it lets on." -- New York Times Book Review "A book of acute insight and delicious humor. . . . Absorbing and poignant and full of difficult truth." --Rosellen Brown, New York Magazine Though radio broadcasts grow more harrowing every day, and soon, swastika-marked envelopes begin to arrive from cousins overseas, but the fighting in Europe still seems far away from the idyllic California home of ten-year-old tomboy Suse Hansen. But after Pearl Harbor, everything changes. In Ella Leffland's beautifully wrought story of a young girl's coming of age during WWII, the fighting in Europe looms behind the tranquility of family, friends, and neighbors--until the darkness of the war becomes suddenly, irrevocably real.