An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II Novel. Shelley Blanton-Stroud
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ISBN: 9781647429478 | 256 pages | 7 Mb
- An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II Novel
- Shelley Blanton-Stroud
- Page: 256
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9781647429478
- Publisher: She Writes Press
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For fans of Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code and Jacqueline Winspear’s The Consequences of Fear comes a gripping novel, set in post–WWII San Francisco, about a young female newspaper publisher and a story that could change the course of her city’s future. In the jubilant aftermath of Japan’s surrender in World War II, San Francisco erupts in celebration. But for Sandy Zimmer, the thirty-two-year-old widow publisher of the Prospect newspaper, the revelry masks a darker truth. In the chaos of the VJ Day Peace Riot, eleven deaths and six rapes take place. Driven by journalistic integrity and battling her own instincts to maintain peace, Sandy directs her paper to investigate the riot. Her quest for truth pits her against formidable adversaries: her controlling civic-leader father-in-law, the newspaper’s resistant board, and authorities desperate to bury the scandal as they vie to attract the United Nations Headquarters to San Francisco. Based on little-known historical events, An Unlikely Prospect follows Sandy’s fight to find her voice in the male-dominated world of 1945 journalism. As she navigates power dynamics, gender roles, and the steep price of printing the truth, Sandy must confront her own transformation from a people-pleasing widow into a determined publisher willing to challenge the status quo.
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In the jubilant aftermath of Japan's surrender in World War II, San Francisco erupts in celebration. But for Sandy Zimmer, the thirty-two-year-old widow .
An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II Novel - Barnes & Noble
Inspired by oft-ignored historical details from the 1945 riots, Blanton-Stroud has composed a well-paced, edgy tale that is a salute to solid, honest .
An Unlikely Prospect | Book by Shelley Blanton-Stroud
In the jubilant aftermath of Japan's surrender in World War II, San Francisco erupts in celebration. But for Sandy Zimmer, the thirty-two-year-old widow .
An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II Novel - Shelley Blanton-Stroud
In the jubilant aftermath of Japan's surrender in World War II, San Francisco erupts in celebration. But for Sandy Zimmer, the thirty-two-year-old widow .
An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II Novel by Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Based on little-known historical events, An Unlikely Prospect follows Sandy's fight to find her voice in the male-dominated world of 1945 .
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