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Boom Town Boy

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This is the witty, ironic, and deliciously outspoken coming-of-age memoir of Jack de Yonge from Fairbanks, Alaska -- a once thriving mining town slowly dying in the remote center of the vast territory. As Jack's dad liked say, no matter what direction you went out of town, you soon arrived in Nowhere.Then, World War II breaks out, and the Japanese attack Alaska. The sleepy little river town springs back to life with the arrival of thousands of U.S. soldiers, Russian lend-lease pilots, and construction workers who keep the red-light district busy and the bars rocking around the clock.The son of a hardwareman at the N.C. Company and an Irish daughter of the gold rush, de Yonge is a fist-fighting, music-loving altar boy who discovers his own truths about sex, religion, racism. His earhty story describes how the war arrives in a small Alaska town next to Nowhere--and nothing is ever the same again.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781935347064
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 256
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. juni 2010
  • Størrelse:
  • 216x142x16 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 308 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 5. december 2024

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This is the witty, ironic, and deliciously outspoken coming-of-age memoir of Jack de Yonge from Fairbanks, Alaska -- a once thriving mining town slowly dying in the remote center of the vast territory. As Jack's dad liked say, no matter what direction you went out of town, you soon arrived in Nowhere.Then, World War II breaks out, and the Japanese attack Alaska. The sleepy little river town springs back to life with the arrival of thousands of U.S. soldiers, Russian lend-lease pilots, and construction workers who keep the red-light district busy and the bars rocking around the clock.The son of a hardwareman at the N.C. Company and an Irish daughter of the gold rush, de Yonge is a fist-fighting, music-loving altar boy who discovers his own truths about sex, religion, racism. His earhty story describes how the war arrives in a small Alaska town next to Nowhere--and nothing is ever the same again.

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