Words of My Roaring Paperback - 1998
by Ernest J. Finney
An emotionally charged story of courage and love on the home front during WWII, by the acclaimed author of Winterchill. The small town of San Bruno, California, is transformed, when it becomes the site of an assembly camp for Japanese-Americans--and a liberty town for 25,000 sailors.
From the rear cover
World War II brings many extraordinary changes to San Bruno, a small town thirteen miles south of San Francisco. Nearby Tanforan Race Track becomes an assembly camp for Japanese Americans awaiting forced relocation and then a naval training base for Pacific-bound recruits. The elementary school auditorium turns overnight into a USO, and the city itself is suddenly a liberty town for 16,000 sailors. Meanwhile, California prepares for a Japanese invasion: barrage balloons float over San Francisco, a submarine net stretches across the entrance to the bay, and air-raid drills and blackouts become daily routines as everyone waits nervously for the first attack. We see these changes and their consequences through the eyes of Elaine Walker, the new fifth grade teacher at Edgemont Elementary; her students Mary Maureen and Ruthie Mitchum, whose parents have come from Tennessee to work in the shipyards, and Avery Fontana; and USN first-class petty officer Chuck Sweet, stationed at Tanforan, heart-scarred by his months in the war zone. Driven by despair, by sheer passion, or by love, they are called upon to respond to their accidental claims on one another with courage, honor, and grace. Words of My Roaring is an emotionally charged, beautifully written novel about the unlikely sources of human redemption.
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- Title Words of My Roaring
- Author Ernest J. Finney
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 380
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-10-01
- ISBN 9780520216389 / 0520216385
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.51 x 0.93 in (20.98 x 14.00 x 2.36 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - California - San
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98016352
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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