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The Blue Star Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Tony Earley

The small dramas of teenage love get caught in the crosswinds of a war in this sequel to the 2001 bestseller "Jim the Boy." Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War II.


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Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity. With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made Jim the Boy a favorite novel for thousands of readers, Tony Earley has fashioned another nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time -- making it again even realer than our own day. This is a timeless and moving story of discovery, loss and growing up, proving why Tony Earley's writing radiates with a largeness of heart (Esquire).

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  • Title The Blue Star
  • Author Tony Earley
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2008-03
  • ISBN 9780316199070 / 0316199079
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.94 x 1.09 in (21.08 x 15.09 x 2.77 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007009921
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/2008, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2008, Page 5
  • Library Journal, 01/15/2008, Page 82
  • New York Times Book Review, 03/16/2008, Page 22
  • New Yorker (The), 03/31/2008, Page 129
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/07/2008, Page 9
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/03/2007, Page 47

About the author

Tony Earley is the author of the novels Jim the Boy and The Blue Star. His fiction has earned a National Magazine Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Best American Short Stories. Earley was chosen for both The New Yorker's inaugural best 20 Under 40 list of fiction writers and Granta's 20 Best Young American Novelists. He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Chair in English at Vanderbilt University.
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