《Mare's War》是2011年1月25日ALFRED A KNOPF出版的圖書,作者是 Coretta Scott。
基本介紹
- 書名:Mare's War
- 作者:Coretta Scott
- 出版社:ALFRED A KNOPF
- 出版時間:2011年1月25日
- 頁數:352 頁
- ISBN:9780375850776
- 正文語種:英語
- 平裝:352頁
- ASIN:0375850775
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American Battalion of the Women's Army Corps. Now she is driving her granddaughters—two willful teenagers in their own rite—on a cross-country road trip. The girls are initially skeptical of Mare's flippy wigs and stilletos, but they soon find themselves entranced by the story she has to tell, and readers will be too.Told in alternating chapters, half of which follow Mare through her experiences as a WAC and half of which follow Mare and her granddaughters on the road in the present day, this novel introduces readers to a larger-than-life character and a fascinating chapter in African American history.
作者簡介
In addition to Mare's War, Coretta Scott King Honor winner TANITA DAVIS has written one other YA novel for Knopf, A la Carte. She was inspired to write Mare's War while researching her family's history: "I discovered an America I had never seen," said Davis, and it is that America her book brings to life.