Bibliograph

America was hard to find, a novel, Kathleen Alcott

Type

Label

America was hard to find, a novel, Kathleen Alcott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-417)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

America was hard to find

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1048936647

Responsibility statement

Kathleen Alcott

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she and her young son Wright turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon. Years earlier, Fay and Vincent meet at a pilots' bar in the Mojave Desert. Both seemed poised for reinvention--the married test pilot, Vincent, as an astronaut; the spurned child of privilege, Fay, as an activist. Their casual affair ends quickly, but its consequences linger. Though their lives split, their senses of purpose deepen in tandem, each becoming heroes to different sides of the political spectrum of the 1960s and 70s: Vincent an icon with no plan beyond the mission for which he has single-mindedly trained, Fay a leader of a violent leftist group whose anti-Vietnam actions make her one of the FBI's most wanted. With her last public appearance, a demonstration that frames the Apollo program as a vehicle for distracting the American public from its country's atrocities, Fay leaves Wright to contend with her legacy, his own growing apathy, and the misdeeds of both his mother and his country."--Amazon.com

Target audience

general

Creator