Love and War in California: A Novel

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		Love and War in California: A Novel
		Love and War in California: A Novel

基本信息·出版社：Thomas Dunne Books
·页码：288 页
·出版日期：2007年04月
·ISBN：0312357621
·International Standard Book Number：0312357621
·条形码：9780312357627
·EAN：9780312357627
·版本：1
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 The Sweeping Novel of a Twentieth-Century California Life
 
Love and War in California tells the story, through the eyes of Payton Daltrey, of the last sixty years of an evolving America.
The award-winning author Oakley Hall begins his newest work in 1940s San Diego, where his endearing, wide-eyed narrator must define his identity in terms of self, family, and World War II. As his classmates disappear into the war one by one, he becomes obsessed with abuses of power and embroiled with the charming, dangerous Errol Flynn; with the Red Baiting of the American Legion; with the House Un-American Activities Committee; and with the Japanese interment at Manzanar. Nevertheless, Payton, too, must go to the war, where he is a part of the invasion of Europe and that proving of the American soldier: the Battle of the Bulge. After war’s end and time in New York, he returns to California as a writer and a seeker, whose old, long-lost love rises from the ashes to show him who he really is.
Hall has been called a “master craftsman” (Amy Tan) with “one of the finest prose styles around” (Michael Chabon), and he has received the PEN Center USA West Award of Honor and the P&W Writers for Writers Award. Coming on the heels of Hall’s San Francisco Chronicle bestseller (a reissue of his classic Western, Warlock), Love and War in California is more than a novel about a young boy who grows old. It’s about how the passions of youth become the verities of age, and how we evolve as a nation, a country, and a people during times that are all at once turbulent, dangerous, and stirring.

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The Sweeping Novel of a Twentieth-Century California Life

 

Love and War in California tells the story, through the eyes of Payton Daltrey, of the last sixty years of an evolving America.

The award-winning author Oakley Hall begins his newest work in 1940s San Diego, where his endearing, wide-eyed narrator must define his identity in terms of self, family, and World War II. As his classmates disappear into the war one by one, he becomes obsessed with abuses of power and embroiled with the charming, dangerous Errol Flynn; with the Red Baiting of the American Legion; with the House Un-American Activities Committee; and with the Japanese interment at Manzanar. Nevertheless, Payton, too, must go to the war, where he is a part of the invasion of Europe and that proving of the American soldier: the Battle of the Bulge. After war’s end and time in New York, he returns to California as a writer and a seeker, whose old, long-lost love rises from the ashes to show him who he really is.

Hall has been called a “master craftsman” (Amy Tan) with “one of the finest prose styles around” (Michael Chabon), and he has received the PEN Center USA West Award of Honor and the P&W Writers for Writers Award. Coming on the heels of Hall’s San Francisco Chronicle bestseller (a reissue of his classic Western, Warlock), Love and War in California is more than a novel about a young boy who grows old. It’s about how the passions of youth become the verities of age, and how we evolve as a nation, a country, and a people during times that are all at once turbulent, dangerous, and stirring.  "Eminently enjoyable for its splendid detail."—Publishers Weekly
 

“When I read the first ten pages of Love and War in California, I had that heady sense of falling in love. My amazement grew as I read long into the night. Everything about this book sings to me. Oakley Hall evokes the story of a young man’s soul and that of his town and his country in a time of great change and uncertainty. It is both intimate and universal, graceful and exuberant. It reflects on human desire and belonging, the complexities of honesty and loyalty, truth and fairness, the unraveling of ideas and passion, and the emergence of something greater. Hall accomplishes this with compassion, honesty, and the occasional wink. This is a book for our times, a book that will surely stand out as an enduring masterpiece of American literature.”--AMY TAN

 "Love and War in California is classic American story-telling, in the manner of James Jones and the Norman Mailer we first loved. It is made for a reader who wants to sit down with a book, stay up all night and not quit until the end."--RICHARD FORD
 
"Oakley Hall's Love and War in California is in so many ways a culmination, a fulfillment, a peak: of Hall's artistry, of his lifelong exploration of the recurring motifs and topography and mythology of the American west, and of the great post-Chandler novel itself, that epic romance of disillusion and of promise betrayed, of which Hall is, as this book proves, our greatest living master."—MICHAEL CHABON

 

OAKLEY HALL served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II and has an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. For twenty years he was the director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine and is the founder and general director emeritus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Hall has published twelve mysteries, fourteen mainstream novels, two books on writing, and the New York Times bestseller The Corpus of Joe Bailey, and his novels Warlock and The Downhill Racers were both made into major motion pictures.

作者简介

OAKLEY HALL served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II and has an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. For twenty years he was the director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine and is the founder and general director emeritus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Hall has published twelve mysteries, fourteen mainstream novels, two books on writing, and the New York Times bestseller The Corpus of Joe Bailey, and his novels Warlock and The Downhill Racers were both made into major motion pictures.

媒体推荐   "Eminently enjoyable for its splendid detail."—Publishers Weekly
 
“When I read the first ten pages of Love and War in California, I had that heady sense of falling in love. My amazement grew as I read long into the night. Everything about this book sings to me. Oakley Hall evokes the story of a young man’s soul and that of his town and his country in a time of great change and uncertainty. It is both intimate and universal, graceful and exuberant. It reflects on human desire and belonging, the complexities of honesty and loyalty, truth and fairness, the unraveling of ideas and passion, and the emergence of something greater. Hall accomplishes this with compassion, honesty, and the occasional wink. This is a book for our times, a book that will surely stand out as an enduring masterpiece of American literature.”--AMY TAN
 "Love and War in California is classic American story-telling, in the manner of James Jones and the Norman Mailer we first loved. It is made for a reader who wants to sit down with a book, stay up all night and not quit until the end."--RICHARD FORD
 
"Oakley Hall's Love and War in California is in so many ways a culmination, a fulfillment, a peak: of Hall's artistry, of his lifelong exploration of the recurring motifs and topography and mythology of the American west, and of the great post-Chandler novel itself, that epic romance of disillusion and of promise betrayed, of which Hall is, as this book proves, our greatest living master."—MICHAEL CHABON
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Hall's sure-handed latest (after 20-plus novels) features Payton Daltry. who is a junior at San Diego State when Pearl Harbor is bombed on December 7, 1941. His friends and elder brother, Richie, join the service; Payton attempts to finish his degree and cultivate a faltering love affair with the fair and wealthy Bonnie, pregnant by a former boyfriend. Payton cements their tie by helping her find an abortionist, while he also tries to reconcile his profound social consciousness with the jingoism of a nation adjusting to total war. In short order, his work with a socialist newspaper, the Brand, puts him, for the next two-thirds of the novel, in conflict with almost everyone he knows. (There are entertaining cameos by Erroll Flynn, Jack Warner and others.) The last 100 pages summarize with little sense of character or progression: the novel jumps ahead to 1944 with Payton as a GI invading France. Hall (Warlock) glosses the combat experience wherein Payton's ideals are finally destroyed and his outlook shifts to fatalistic and melancholy acceptance. The story is eminently enjoyable for its splendid detail, but Payton's actions are seldom justified by his feelings, and as a narrator he never quite comes off the page. (Apr.)
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文摘 Chapter One The first time i saw bonny, the first time i paid attention to her, anyway, was December 8,1941. We were all in the Caff at San Diego State College that Monday morning, listening to the terrible news on the radio, the losses, the deaths, the Day of Infamy, the declaration of war. The Japs! We drank coffee or Cokes and listened to the bad news. No one knew then how much more bad news we were going to hear before some good news began to filter through. The college junior I was then sat at a tile-topped table with some of my fraternity brothers, including Pogey, my best friend, and Johnny Pierce, a senior. Barbara Bonington, his sophomore girlfriend, or “meat,” as the cruder of the brothers would put it, came to the table beside him, bobby socks and saddle shoes, a blue sweater set with pearls around her neck, and his Alpha Beta pin. She had thick blond hair, blue eyes, and a pretty face with a little pad of baby fat beneath her chin, which vanished when she raised her face to the radio on its shelf, pouring out its deep-voiced horrors. We hadn’t had the time and clues to figure how we were going to be affected by them yet—although some guys were already blowing off about enlisting and killing Japs. I’d been reading A Farewell to Arms, and I thought about what Hemingway had said about guys dying in a war being like the stockyards in Chicago except nothing was done with the meat except to bury it, and about bullshit words like “in vain.” Those poor guys at Pearl Harbor had surely died in vain. Johnny didn’t stand up, grinning as he raised a lazy hand to touch Bonny’s pearl necklace, running the Add-A-Pearls through his fingers as he turned the necklace on her pretty neck. It was obvious she didn’t like this from the indentations at the corners of her lips, but Johnny kept doing it as she gazed up at the radio. He thoug
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