A World Away

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Author:

O'Nan, Stewart

ISBN:

978-0-312-42277-6

Publication Date:

Oct 2003

Publisher:

Picador

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $14.00

Book Description:

A World Away reveals one of America's most versatile writers at his romantic and elegiac best. In following the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, Stewart O'Nan brilliantly captures the mood of this lost world and the changing fate of a country aware that when the war ends, nothing will ever be the same.

Book Details

Pages:	352
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Historical / General Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.42 x 8.26 x 0.96 Inches
Book Weight:	0.682 Pounds

Author Biography

O'Nan, Stewart (Author)

Stewart O'Nan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1961. He received a B. S. from Boston University in 1983 and received a M. F. A. in fiction from Cornell University in 1992. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a test engineer for Grumman Aerospace from 1984 to 1988.

He has written several novels including The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, The Circus Fire, and Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season. In the Walled City won the 1993 Due Heinz Literature Prize; Snow Angels won the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize; and The Names of the Dead won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award. Snow Angels was made into a feature film in 2007. In 1996, he was listed as one of Granta's best young American novelists.

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