Four Freedoms eBook John Crowley
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In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to combat, a city springs up, seemingly overnight in the fields of Oklahoma the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the necessary machinery of warfare. Labourers - mostly women - flock to this place, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. For Vi, fleeing a dying ranch; for Connie, following an unfaithful husband; for Diane, leaving behind the hot music and soldier boys to pursue something different, adult, and real; their journeys will be liberating in ways they couldn't previously imagine, and will lead each of them to Prosper Olander - disabled artist, forger, friend, lover, and the true heart and soul of the temporary city - who will change their lives in profound and unexpected ways.
Four Freedoms eBook John Crowley
I was prepared to like this story in part because it's one of my favorite time periods in U.S. history. This story however seems to take place in a quantum universe several steps removed from the US.Product details
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Four Freedoms eBook John Crowley Reviews
This is the first novel I have read by John Crowley and I will surely read more. This story quickly pulls in the reader and brings to life what it must have been like during WW II on the homefront. In addition, he creates a hero who remains believably optimistic and positive about life despite horrible early life experiences leaving the reader feeling inspired and touched. Wondeful read.
My mom riveted wings on Lockheed planes during WWII, and this gives a very fair feel for what that life was like. It also amazes with a portrait of what life could be like for the disabled at that time, and this is true even though I am old enough to remember almost NEVER seeing the seriously disabled in public in the US but somehow failing, at the time, to wonder why. Out of sight, out of mind. Well drawn characters and their stories over a few short, intense years.
Crowley has created another masterpiece, and he is one of only a few American novelists in the last 50 years who is truly a master. Prosper Olander may be the most completely individual and evocative fictional character since Ishmael. His efforts in the creation of the Pax bomber certainly bring to mind the quest for the white whale. His perspective and his adventures capture a country, a culture, and a national consciousness in transition without ever once moralizing or drawing attention to the larger picture that is the backdrop of his personal story. Indeed, the story of the World War II home front seems meticulously accurate but never becomes a dry history. Rather, Crowley evokes those details as his characters progress through their lives.
"Four Freedoms" is highly enjoyable and emotionally engaging; it rewards its readers well, even after the last page has been turned.
Character driven Story line, historical fiction, would not recommend to single minded folks.
Crowley has put together a fictional microcosm of Brokaw's "Greatest Generation". We follow the lives of some folks as they served at home through the years of World War II. Crowley put together a cast that includes those who aren't heroic or particularly noteworthy - but are way too real. These are the people of cities and small towns who, for whatever reasons, served to the best of their abilities.
My father served during WWII in the Army Air Corps and my mother made aircraft parts. The stories Crowley tells are the same as those I grew up hearing. It was a time when people came together to do what needed done.
I wonder if my children's generation will get as much from this book as I did. Unless they really listened to the "war stories" they heard their grandparents tell, I doubt this will be more than just another WWII era book to them. Hopefully, they'll read this and learn.
The product description tells, in my opinion, way too much. If you have not read John Crowley before, this is a great place to start. He demonstrates an ability to make words flow smoothly and a tell a story without gimmicks. If you have read Crowley, why are you reading my review? You know you're going to read it.
I would love to know what happened later in the characters' lives; but I also wonder if a sequel is a good idea. If Crowley writes it, though, I promise I'll read it!
FOUR FREEDOMS is brilliant. crowley writes like a dream; the novel is about the human capacity to overcome the most degrading and terrible blows, to find the best in each other, to transform suffering into grace. it's funny and sexy and true and beautiful; by the end i was so choked up my throat hurt. (the end reminds me a little of 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE). maybe it is his best novel, but it's so unlike, say, LITTLE, BIG, or BEASTS, that i don't see a way to compare them. certainly it's his most accessible novel, and i hope anybody reading it goes on to the other wonderful books in this resourceful and gifted writer's list because he is simply an american treasure. thanks, john. i needed that.
I was prepared to like this story in part because it's one of my favorite time periods in U.S. history. This story however seems to take place in a quantum universe several steps removed from the US.
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