Hoffman Roy Hoffman

Come Landfall (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The worlds of three women and the men they love come together in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal. Christiane, or Nana, reliving the past in her eighties, her granddaughter Angela, working at a Biloxi casino in her twenties, and their teenage friend Cam, the daughter of a Vietnamese shrimper, form a deep connection. As they face heartbreak, their bonds nurture and sustain them. Ordinary people impacted by the shifts of history Come Landfall is a southern story with a global sensibility.The Gulf Coast serves as more than just a setting it is a character unto itself. With casinos lining one side of the highway, antebellum homes along the other, and a Vietnamese neighborhood up the road, here the old South collides with the new. From households along this stretch of US 90, lineages and emotional connections stretch all over the world.Inspired by true events, Roy Hoffman s novel has its seeds in the saga of his uncle, Maj. Roy Robinton, US Marine Corps, a WWII prisoner of war in the Philippines who disappeared as captive on a Japanese hellship. His young bride, back home, was ground down, waiting.Christiane returns in her mind to the man she married at twenty-one Rosey, a flyer with the Army Air Corps who was in the Philippines at the outbreak of WWII. Angela meets Frank, an airman at Keesler Air Force base who is proudly patriotic, deeply religious, and a student of weather. Cam falls in love with Joe, a Biloxi cop, and her own tumultuous story begins to interweave with that of Angela s and Nana s. What s taken from Nana, Angela, and Cam (and so many others when storms make their landfall), what s given back, and what s kept forever sit at the heart of thisintimate yet expansive novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780817387532
• Artikelnr.: 46761838

Autorenporträt

Roy Hoffman is author of the novels Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith Award for fiction, and Chicken Dreaming Corn, a BookSense pick endorsed by Harper Lee. He is author of two essay collections, Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile and Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations , and his articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Fortune, Southern Living, and the Mobile Press-Register, where he was a long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane University who worked as a journalist and speechwriter in New York City before moving back south to Fairhope, Ala., he received the Clarence Cason Award in nonfiction from the University of Alabama and is on the faculty of the Spalding Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program. On the web: www.Facebook.com/RoyHoffmanWriter