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All That Endures: A Novel of America in the 1960s
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ISBN13: 9781627555265
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Oct 23 2013
Pages: 774
Weight: 2.46
Height: 1.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Wilson Roberts's All That Endures is a vivid novel of America in the 1960s, set in a small New England community caught between the old world and the new. In and around Keetsville and Graham Community College, lives converge at a moment of social upheaval: returning soldiers, restless outsiders, old New England families, local power brokers, teachers, merchants, ministers, radicals, reactionaries, and ordinary people trying to understand a country changing faster than they can name.
At the centre are Brud and Reggie Hicks, brothers from Texas whose paths have taken very different turns. Brud, his wife Gwennie, and the defrocked Methodist minister Sam Davis are hired to teach at Graham Community College under the leadership of Colonel Walter Chapman Lewis, USMC, Ret. Reggie, by contrast, follows the outlaw instincts that once got him thrown out of the Army after time in a military stockade in Germany. Around them gather Gwendolyn Adams and Gwendolyn James, both connected to historically prominent Boston-area families; Leo Dennison, a former selectman, gun dealer, and angry defender of the old order; and Stacy Phelps, owner of the Keetsville general store.
Funny, dangerous, observant, and deeply rooted in its time, All That Endures captures a world being pulled apart by highways, community colleges, class resentment, political fear, sexual change, generational conflict, and the arrival of outsiders into places that thought they could remain untouched. For readers who lived through the 1960s, the novel will stir recognition; for those who came later, it offers a lively and unsentimental portrait of the era that helped make the troubled America of today.
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