In the unlikely event / Judy Blume.
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place -- Nat King Cole singing "Unforgettable," Elizabeth Taylor haircuts, young (and not-so-young) love, explosive friendships, A-bomb hysteria, rumors of Communist threat. And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy. Through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101875049
- ISBN: 1101875046
- Physical Description: 401 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This is Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Aircraft accidents > New Jersey > Elizabeth > Fiction. Homecoming > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Nineteen fifties > Fiction. Elizabeth (N.J.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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